Bad Bunny has been cast in a brand new film!
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In the recent couple months, it seems like the hit musical artist Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has been making headlines left and right in the artist world. First, his album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (2025), won the Grammy award for Album of the Year. Not even a week later, Bad Bunny performed at the halftime show for this year's Super Bowl, putting on a jaw-dropping performance that was one of the most viewed halftime shows the Super Bowl has had, according to an article by The New York Times.
Lucky for his many fans, Bad Bunny's month of great news has not ended yet. It was recently revealed that he would be starring in a brand new movie! The movie will be called Puerto Rico. So far, the exact plot and expected release date are unknown. However, the movie is expected to be centered around the true events of the history of Puerto Rico, as the name would suggest. Edward Norton, another actor that has been cast, described the film as “forcing us to face up to the shadow under the American narrative of idealism,” in an article posted to the People Magazine. An article on Deadline also mentions that the earliest versions of the movie, first announced back in 2023, were expected to center around the life of José Maldonado Román, better known as Águila Blanca. He was a revolutionary from Puerto Rico known for fighting against the Spanish colonists. It has not been stated if this is still the plot the movie plans to follow, but it cannot be discounted yet.
What we do know for sure is a few of the cast and production team that will be working on bringing the movie Puerto Rico to life. The movie will of course be starring Bad Bunny, and it will be his first time as the lead character in a film, though far from his first film in general. Thanks to his wildly successful music career, not everyone may know that Bad Bunny has quite the background in film and acting! According to IMDb, he played the character Wolf in the film Bullet Train (2022) and Felipe in Cassandora (2023). Bad Bunny even has a history as a wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment, better known as WWE. He is sure to put on a stellar performance with all this experience, not that any one can really be surprised about that.
Only two other actors have been confirmed to have been cast, so we can expect Bad Bunny’s co-stars to be the legendary Viggo Mortensen and Edward Norton. Both of these actors have been a part of movies that earned and cemented their place in cinematic history, and just a quick glance at their respective IMDb pages proves it. Many will recognize Viggo Mortensen as having played one of the main characters, Aragorn, throughout the famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. Meanwhile, Edward Norton played the role of The Narrator in the iconic Fight Club (1999). Of course, these are just some of the most well-known roles played by two incredibly talented people.With such star quality in the cast already, Puerto Rico is shaping up to be a movie for the ages.
That is not all! The movie is going to be directed and co-written by another musical artist, René Pérez Joglar, better known as Residente. While looking at his IMDb, it would appear that Residente is a first-timer for directing a film. However, he definitely has experience from directing multiple music videos and even the Residente (2017) documentary! He is certainly passionate about the film, as he reported to Deadline, that he had wanted to make a movie about Puerto Rico since he was very young.
While we do not know much about this project yet, with such a star-studded and passionate team behind it, there is no doubt that Puerto Rico will be an excellent film with an important story to tell.