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Hip hop star Bad Bunny, who has morphed into an excellent WWE performer, will be see in the new lucha libre biopic Cassandro, playing a supporting role, Felipe. The plot of the film, which will be available later this month on Prime Video - "Saúl Armendáriz, a homosexual amateur wrestler from El Paso, Texas, rises to international stardom when he creates the character Cassandro, the `Liberace of Lucha Libre.' He upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life."
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, however, Bunny noted he has dropped out of Sony's planned Spider-Man spin-off film El Muerto. That film had been pulled from Sony's calendar several months ago. Bunny, who put in tremendous performances at Wrestlemania 37, the 2022 Royal Rumble and this year's Backlash was set as the lead star.
The film was to be a cinematic adaptation of a little-known Marvel Comics character for Sony's Spider-Verse films, which are produced outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Sony holds the rights to Spider-Man and all of his associated characters. Debuting back in 2006 in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6 by Peter David and Roger Cruz, El Muerto (real name Marcus Estrada de la Garcia) is a masked professional wrestler who's mystical mask allows him to possess superpowers. The story was that members of the family would pass the identity down through the generations. After being tasked to unmask a super-hero under the threat of death, Muerto battles Spider-Man (naturally, in a wrestling ring) in an attempt to publicly unmask him. He almost succeeds but is stopped by Spider-Man. When his tormentor El Dorado arrives to take his life, Spider-Man helps and teams with El Muerto to stop Dorado.
Bunny himself found the El Muerto character while researching potential Spider-Man characters he could portray and pushed for it to be developed as a theatrical vehicle after Sony approached him wanting to work together. The film, originally scheduled to be released in January 2024, removed from the studio's calendar due to the still ongoing Writer's Guild strike that has pushed back a massive amount of film and television projects. All the delays meant that there would be massive scheduling conflicts due to Bunny's other commitments.
The Hollywood Reporter had previously reported that former WWE and current New Japan Pro Wrestling star Mercedes Varnado had been planned for a role in the film. There is no word how far along in the script process the film got and whether Sony may pursue it with another star post-strikes.
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