{"id":159679,"date":"2026-02-18T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=159679"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:27:05","slug":"bad-bunny-to-star-in-historical-drama-porto-rico-directed-by-residente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bad-bunny-to-star-in-historical-drama-porto-rico-directed-by-residente\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny to star in historical drama &#8216;PORTO RICO&#8217; directed by Residente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports announce <strong>Bad Bunny<\/strong> to star in the historical drama &#8216;<strong>PORTO RICO<\/strong>,&#8217; directed by <strong>Residente<\/strong>, making history for their nation and their career, going beyond the music to tell their truth.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/bad-bunny-porto-rico-movie-ed-norton-javier-bardem-residente-1236727219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a> reports, <strong>Benito Mart\u00ednez Ocasio<\/strong> is stepping into his first leading film role in &#8216;PORTO RICO,&#8217; a Caribbean western and historical drama about Puerto Rico, alongside the renowned <strong>Ren\u00e9 P\u00e9rez Joglar<\/strong>, making his directorial debut.<\/p>\n<p>The main cast of this movie will also include the American actors <strong>Viggo Mortensen<\/strong> and <strong>Edward Norton<\/strong> and the Spanish <strong>Javier Bardem<\/strong>, and as executive producer, the Mexican <strong>Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/strong>. Residente describes the movie as:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;This film is a reaffirmation of who we are\u2014told with the intensity and honesty that our history deserves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2024170905329377745\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bad Bunny will star in his first lead film role in \u2018PORTO RICO\u2019 alongside Viggo Mortensen, Edward Norton and Javier Bardem.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows the story of Jos\u00e9 Maldonado Rom\u00e1n who fought against colonialism by leading a gang of ex-convicts to vindicate Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AIEBOfKJmz\">pic.twitter.com\/AIEBOfKJmz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2024170905329377745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This production will be based on the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary <strong>Jos\u00e9 Maldonado Rom\u00e1n<\/strong>, known as \u00c1guila Blanca, who fought against colonialism by leading a gang of ex-convicts to vindicate his nation in its search for its identity as a country.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is still unknown if the movie will follow the original storyline above, Ren\u00e9 said the movie starring Bad Bunny will <strong><em>&#8220;blend historical scope with a visceral, lyrical approach and a gripping narrative inspired by true events.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports announce Bad Bunny to star in the historical drama &#8216;PORTO RICO,&#8217; directed by Residente, making history for their nation and their career, going beyond the music to tell their truth. According to Deadline reports, Benito Mart\u00ednez Ocasio is stepping into his first leading film role in &#8216;PORTO RICO,&#8217; a Caribbean western and historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":159682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,72,1399],"tags":[47],"class_list":{"0":"post-159679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-latin","9":"category-movies","10":"tag-bad-bunny"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}