Ryan Reynolds Calls For “More Blade” After Wesley Snipes’ Marvel Return
Ryan Reynolds is calling for the MCU to give fans “more Blade” after Wesley Snipes’ return to the acclaimed franchise. Almost a month after Deadpool & Wolverine became Marvel Studios’ latest billion-dollar hit movie, the Canadian actor took to Instagram to show love to Snipes.
Reynolds shared a picture of the two on set in a behind-the-scenes photo with a caption, gushing about Blade’s secret cameo. “The reaction when @realwesleysnipes enters the movie is the most intense thing l’ve heard in a theater. People screaming with uninhibited joy and love is also the sound of a legacy,” he typed. “More Blade please. #DayWalker. A Logan-style send off, specifically.”
Wesley previously shared how he found himself reprising his iconic role yet again. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Florida native explained that Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have actually been in contact with him over the years, but nothing ever materialized.
That is until Disney acquired 20th Century Fox—the company that once owned the movie rights to Blade, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, and Daredevil—and the heroes were officially back home. Ryan, who starred alongside Snipes in 2004’s Blade: Trinity, heard of the acquisition and sent him a text, saying, “I want to talk to you,” and the rest was, well, a billion-dollar history.
“Over the years, we’ve had very interesting conversations, some of them very substantive and some of them not,” Snipes told EW. “So I kind of resided that I was moving on from them, which is okay. 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.”
“I did not think it was possible,” the acclaimed thespian recalled. “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, ‘Okay, 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.”
Feige and Marvel Studios have been attempting to make their own Blade for five years now. In July 2019, news that Ali would be the next Blade hit the internet with much hype. Since then, the movie has undergone a litany of changes like adding new directors and screenwriters.
As more turnover hit the movie in June, Ali’s attorney, Shelby Weiser, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the unbelievable amount of issues with the film, saying, “That deal was in 2019, and they still haven’t shot it, which is pretty much the craziest thing in my professional experience.”
Mahershala Ali gets the loudest cheer of the night by putting on a Blade cap. #MarvelSDCC pic.twitter.com/GD2KoCF3yn
— Ryan Gajewski (@_RyanGajewski) July 21, 2019
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