Wesley Snipes’ Blade Breaks Guinness World Records With Appearance in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

Wesley Snipes has reached recent profession heights together with his latest film appearance.

The actor broke two Guinness World Records together with his surprise appearance as his signature Marvel character, Blade, in the brand new superhero film “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Snipes currently holds the record for the longest profession as a live-action Marvel character, appearing as Blade 25 years and 240 days after he first played the half-vampire superhero in 1998’s “Blade,” in keeping with Hollywood Reporter.

Snipes beat out his co-star Hugh Jackman, who first played Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men, the publication reports. Jackman was poised to take the record from Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Charles Xavier/Professor X, but lost out to Snipes, in keeping with THR.

Snipes’ appearance in “Deadpool & Wolverine” also broke the record for the longest gap between appearances by a personality in a Marvel film, Guinness announced over the weekend. The actor last appeared as Blade in 2004’s “Blade: Trinity,” which was 19 years and 231 days before the discharge of “Deadpool & Wolverine.” The record was previously held by Alfred Molina, who had a 17-year gap between his appearance as Doc Ock in “Spider-Man 2” and his last appearance in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” in keeping with THR.

Snipes’ recent record comes as Marvel Studios executives work to return the Blade franchise to the massive screen. Mahershala Ali is ready to play the enduring character in the upcoming film, which has faced significant delays, in keeping with THR . Snipes joked in regards to the film’s production challenges in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” saying he’ll be “the only Blade people will ever see on the big screen.”

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Marvel Studios CEO Kevin Feige spoke to The Guardian in regards to the recent Blade movie Blacktree TV in June, announcing that the film could be rated R.

“I mean, for us, over the last two years, trying to get this movie through, the most important thing for us was to take our time and make sure we were making the right Blade movie,” he said on the time. “Because there were a couple of great Blade movies years ago — they were all R-rated. So I think that, like Deadpool, is inherent to the Blade character.”