Ryan Reynolds is celebrating Wesley Snipes on Deadpool & Wolverine and called for “more Blade.”
The actor dedicated a social media post to Snipes, who made a cameo in the Marvel film, reprising the Blade role he first portrayed in the 1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington.
“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,” Reynolds shared on Instagram with a carousel of photos from the set of the superhero film.
Reynolds added, “More Blade please. #DayWalker.”
At the end of the post, Reynolds noted, “A Logan-style send off, specifically.”
Snipes recently recalled how his cameo on Deadpool & Wolverine came about, telling EW that it all “started with a text from Ryan Reynolds.”
Although Snipes said he was initially skeptical if the cameo would be possible he told Reynolds that if he could make it happen he would do it.
“I did not think it was possible. I didn’t think he would be able to pull it off. I didn’t think that Marvel was into it. Disney was into it,” Snipes said. “And also because they had Mahershala, you know, cast for the next upcoming version of it. So, it didn’t make sense to me.”
After the first Blade was released, Snipes reprised the superhero role in 2002’s Blade II and 2004’s Blade: Trinity.
In 2019, Marvel confirmed they were working on a Blade reboot starring Ali. The project has been plagued by delays, including the loss of director Bassam Tariq and the writers’ strike.