{"id":225984,"date":"2026-01-10T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:43:09","slug":"wesley-snipes-blade-gets-exciting-mcu-future-update-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225984\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Snipes\u2019 Blade Gets Exciting MCU Future Update – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wesley Snipes shocked fans when he returned to reprise the role of Blade<\/a> in the MCU film Deadpool & Wolverine. Now, his character has gotten a more promising update. <\/p>\n

What do we know about Wesley Snipes\u2019 MCU future? <\/p>\n

According to a new report from insider The Beyond Reporter on social media, Snipes will be back as Blade \u201cone last time,\u201d and will appear in either the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, or Avengers: Secret Wars<\/a>. While it\u2019s exactly unclear what his role will be, given the multiversal nature of both films, it wouldn\u2019t be too shocking to see Blade appear and lend a hand to some heroes. <\/p>\n

Snipes played the role of Blade as the character in the 2000s series of films. He would go on to reprise the role in Deadpool & Wolverine, a film in which made a ton of jokes about the status of Blade in the MCU overall. While a solo film starring the character was announced in 2019, the film has recently been reported to be canceled<\/a>, with the character instead potentially appearing in a Midnight Sons movie. <\/p>\n

So far, several major stars from the MCU have been confirmed to appear in the movie, including Chris Hemsworth\u2019s Thor,\u00a0Pedro Pascal\u2019s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby\u2019s Invisible Woman\/Sue Storm,\u00a0Anthony Mackie\u2019s Captain America,\u00a0Sebastian Stan\u2019s Bucky Barnes\/Winter Soldier,\u00a0Letitia Wright\u2019s Shuri\/Black Panther, and\u00a0Paul Rudd\u2019s Ant-Man.<\/p>\n

More names for the upcoming movie include\u00a0Wyatt Russell\u2019s U.S. Agent\/John Walker,\u00a0Tenoch Huerta\u2019s Namor,\u00a0Ebon Moss-Bachrach\u2019s The Thing\/Ben Grimm,\u00a0Simu Liu\u2019s Shang-Chi,\u00a0Florence Pugh\u2019s Yelena Belova,\u00a0Kelsey Grammer\u2019s Dr. Hank McCoy\/Beast,\u00a0Lewis Pullman\u2019s Bob\/Sentry,\u00a0Danny Ramirez\u2019s Joaquin Torres\/Falcon,\u00a0Joseph Quinn\u2019s Johnny Storm\/Human Torch,\u00a0David Harbour\u2019s Alexei Shostakov\/Red Guardian,\u00a0Winston Duke\u2018s M\u2019Baku,\u00a0Hannah John-Kamen\u2018s Ava Starr\/Ghost, and\u00a0Tom Hiddleston\u2018s Loki.<\/p>\n

Several X-Men characters are also coming back for the upcoming movie, including\u00a0Patrick Stewart\u2018s Charles Xavier,\u00a0Ian McKellen\u2018s Magneto,\u00a0Alan Cumming\u2018s Nightcrawler,\u00a0Rebecca Romijn\u2018s Mystique,\u00a0James Marsden\u2018s Cyclops, and\u00a0Channing Tatum\u2018s Gambit.<\/p>\n

Avengers: Doomsday is set to release on December 18, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars will release a year later, on December 17, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wesley Snipes shocked fans when he returned to reprise the role of Blade in the MCU film Deadpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6004,27326,48152,2398,156,2528,3993,2529,3130,409,111,139,69,74669],"class_list":["post-225984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-avengers-secret-wars","tag-blade","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wesley-snipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}