Hollywood legend, 55-year old Latino actor, producer, and playwright John Leguizamo has a new project: a comic book with a Latino superhero as the main character.

Leguizamo told NBC News that being Latinx, is being a superhero. Latinx is a gender-neutral term for younger Latin generation from which Leguizamo derived his superhero character, PhenomX. Leguizamo said the term inspired him because they are "go-getters, influencers, and they know they have to take matters into their own hands."

The story revolves around a former inmate named Max Gomez who was racially profiled and convicted for a crime he didn't commit, but redeems himself by using his powers to help the Latino people in need. Leguizamo added that Gomez is chosen to become a superhero because he was raised as a clever, ghetto kid in the Lower East Side in New York City.

The reason for this is that Leguizamo wants to show people that they can draw superpowers from the experience of growing up underprivileged.

Leguizamo also revealed to NBC News that he is working with Latino comic industry veterans such as Edgardo Miranda-Rodríguez who is the creator of the comic "La Borinqueña," whose story revolves around a Puerto Rican woman who gets her superpowers from ancestral Taíno gods.

"I'm making this with the Latinx community," Leguizamo said. He added that everyone working on the comic book from the penciler to the drawer to the illustrator to the producer is also Latinx.

Leguizamo has previously worked with Miranda-Rodríguez so PhenomX counts as the second collaboration between the actor and the artist. And while Latin comic book creation has been active since 1940s, the creator of "La Borinqueña" admitted that they never got the ownership to their characters or stories.

Miranda-Rodríguez further said, "John Leguizamo's new comic book series will follow in this new renaissance of independent comic book storytellers like myself with 'La Borinqueña. Therefore, when studios express interest in making 'PhenomX' or 'La Borinqueña' into a motion picture or TV series, they come directly to us and not another studio or publisher."

To introduce the project to the general public, Leguizamo asked the support of the Latino community. He created a crowdfunding page in which he explains how he end up creating the superhero comic, his working process, updates on the project, the people behind the project, the people who have helped fund the project so far, as well as how people can support its production. As of writing, the crowdfunding project has already  more than 300 followers and 131 pledges.

Miranda-Rodríguez expressed his hopes that as the public provides financial support to the new series with Leguizamo, they will not only bring Latino stories to a mainstream audience, but will also give the Latino community the chance to claim their stories as their own.

Throughout Leguizamo's acting career, visibility has been a common theme. This was evident in his 2017 Broadway play "Latin History for Morons" which tells about his struggles of bringing into the public the overlooked Latino heroes who have been included in U.S. history books.