Ryan Reynolds Calls for ‘More Blade Please’ After Wesley Snipes’ Return: ‘The Most Intense Thing I’ve Heard in a Theater’ Was ‘People Screaming’ for Him
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Ryan Reynolds is calling for more Blade on the big screen following 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.” Snipes’ Blade was one of several heroes from Fox’s era of Marvel movies to return in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Jennifer Garner’s Elektra and Chris Evans’ Johnny Storm also appeared much to the delight of comic book movie fans.
Snipes opened up to Entertainment Weekly about what it was like reprising Blade after 20 years in “Deadpool & Wolverine” following the movie’s record-breaking opening weekend. “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 okay.
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