Blade: Reynolds Calls for “More Blade” After Wesley Snipes’ Return

Reynolds Calls for ‘More Blade’ After Wesley Snipes’ Return: ‘Most Intense Thing I’ve Heard in a Theater’ Was ‘People Screaming’ for Him

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Ryan Reynolds is calling for more Blade on the big screen after Wesley Snipes‘ long-awaited return as the Marvel superhero in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Reynolds shared to Instagram behind-the-scenes photos he took with Snipes on the film’s set. Snipes debuted as Blade in the 1998 movie of the same name and reprised the character in 2002’s “Blade II” and 2004’s “Blade: Trinity,” the latter of which co-starred Reynolds.

“The reaction when Wesley Snipes enters the movie is the most intense thing l’ve heard in a theater,” Reynolds wrote in the caption to the post. “People screaming with uninhibited joy and love is also the sound of a legacy. More Blade, please.”

“Over the years, we’ve had very interesting conversations, some of them very substantive and some of them not,” Snipes told EW about bringing his iteration of Blade back for a fourth go-around. “So I kind of resided that I was moving on from them, which is OK. I did three of them, and I thought they turned out pretty good. Not so bad… So we move on to other things, and bigger and better things, as well.”

Reynolds texted Snipes during development to ask if he might be interested in reprising Blade. Reynolds sent a text that read: “I want to talk to you.”

“I did not think it was possible,” Snipes said of his return to Blade after 20 years.

“I didn’t think we would be able to pull it off. I didn’t think that Marvel was into it, Disney was into it — also because they had Mahershala [Ali] cast for the next upcoming version of it…I thought it didn’t make sense to me, but [when] you get a call from Ryan Reynolds out of the blue after 20 years, you go, ‘OK, I got to take this call. Let’s see what this is about.’ He told me the idea…They said ‘yes’ and ‘it’s a go.’ ‘If you’re in, we’re in.’ Here we are.”

Deadpool & Wolverine has grossed more than $1.15 billion at the worldwide box office to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history.

The film is the second highest-grossing movie of 2024 so far behind “Inside Out 2.”

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