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Jonás Cuaron is getting into the ring for Sony’s El Muerto, Marvel‘s antihero film starring Bad Bunny as the title character. According to The Wrap, Cuaron is directing El Muerto from a script by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. If Dunnet-Alcocer’s name rings a bell, it’s because he’s also writing Blue Beetle for DC Films.

El Muerto, aka Juan-Carlos Sánchez, was a super-powered wrestler who initially fought Spider-Man in a charity wrestling match where he nearly unmasked Spider-Man before being accidentally stung by the frightened web-crawler with a paralyzing poison. After being saved from the hospital by Spider-Man, Sanchez’s oppressor, El Dorado, came to claim his life. Knowing his life was in danger, Spider-Man and Sánchez joined forces to defeat Dorado.

Juan-Carlos Sánchez is the son of a luchador who inherits the ancestral power of “El Muerto.” The character’s abilities reside in his wrestling mask, though...

A superpowered Latino character is about to lead a Marvel film for the first time ever, and it'll be none other than the ultra-strong wrestler El Muerto. Sony Pictures is working on an El Muerto movie starring Grammy-winning rapper Bad Bunny, recently seen in "Bullet Train," and The Wrap reports that the film has found its director. Jonás Cuarón, son of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, will be at the helm on the upcoming project, while Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, who penned the script for DC's upcoming "Blue Beetle" film, is set to write the movie.

As a Sony production instead of a Marvel Studios film, this will be part of the continued expansion of the Spider-Man universe that is set to include upcoming offshoots "Madame Web" and "Kraven the Hunter." Sony's extended world that's built around the villains and side characters of Spider-Man comics so far includes two "Venom" films and...