Hugh Jackman says he would have banned Wesley Snipes from Deadpool & Wolverine

Movieweb reports that Hugh Jackman said he would have "banned" Wesley Snipes from Deadpool & Wolverine after Snipes' return reportedly made him the longest-serving Marvel star; Jackman told interviewers, "If I had known, I would have banned him [from Deadpool & Wolverine]."

The film brought back older Fox-era stars, including Jennifer Garner (Elektra), Dafne Keene (X-23) and Snipes as Blade, whose debut in 1998's Blade now leaves him holding a Guiness World Record, according to the report. The title of longest-serving Marvel star has shifted before — Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe claimed it in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Patrick Stewart reclaimed it in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Jackman briefly held it after Deadpool & Wolverine until Snipes' appearance.

Marvel has spent years trying to reboot Blade with Mahershala Ali attached, and Snipes' line in Deadpool & Wolverine — "There is only one Blade, and there will only ever be one Blade" — played on that history. It has been reported that Marvel has scrapped a standalone Blade movie in favor of introducing the character in a Midnight Suns project, and it has been claimed Snipes was offered another turn in Avengers: Secret Wars; whether those reports are accurate may not be clear until the multiverse-ending movie arrives in December 2027.

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