Wesley Snipes has set a Guinness World Record with his return as “Blade” in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” alongside Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds.
This comeback came 25 years and 340 days after he first portrayed the character in 1998’s ‘Blade.’As a result, Snipes now holds the record for the longest career portraying a live-action Marvel character, surpassing Hugh Jackman, whose tenure as “Wolverine” lasted 24 years, beginning with his role in 2000’s “X-Men.”
According to Guinness World Records, Wesley Snipes’s surprise cameo in “Deadpool & Wolverine” has earned him a record for the longest gap between appearances as a Marvel character. He last portrayed Blade 19 years and 231 days ago in Blade: Trinity (2004), surpassing Alfred Molina’s 17-year gap between playing Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
In Deadpool & Wolverine, Snipes’s Blade teams up with Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. The film also features cameos from Jennifer Garner as Elektra, Dafne Keen as X-23, and Channing Tatum as Gambit.
Released on July 26, Deadpool & Wolverine is Disney’s first R-rated Marvel film. It shattered records with the highest R-rated opening weekend ever, grossing $205 million. It also achieved the eighth-best debut of all time and the biggest start of 2024, surpassing Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out 2 ($155 million debut).
The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, known for his explicit humor, swearing, and violence, and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, a mutant with sharp claws.
