As the fight rages on, Iron Man isn't able to figure out why he can't just revive his fallen compatriots with the Reality Stone. However, during the ensuing chaos, multiple members of each group are killed - staring with Penance and Thunderstrike. Maestro forcibly recruits them to contend with the rogue Champions who roam Battleworld and alters their minds so they believe they're still on their world. It's at this point that the Maestro from Battleworld arrives and drags the Avengers to Battle-World, shocking the team. President Iron Man is now the most famous and popular man in his reality alongside his Mighty Avengers - Captain Marvel, Penance, Black Widow (now utilizing a Scarlet Spider suit),and Thunderstrike, a successful version of Iron Man's Thor-clone. In reality, it was through the use of the Infinity Stone that he gained this final victory, "nudging" the swing-states into electing him into office. While it's public knowledge that other actors - like Sam Rockwell, who would appear as Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2 - were considered for Iron Man, not much is known about the process otherwise.Five years after their victory, Tony Stark was elected President. What's less than clear is how Howard helped Downey win the role. Terrence Howard was clearly still bitter about the whole deal at the time of the interview more than three years on. was paid a $50 million Avengers salary – and while negotiations between Downey and Marvel for The Avengers: Age of Ultron were reputedly not easy, he finally signed on for that film following the billion-dollar success of Iron Man 3. But it was always different for the character of Iron Man, given his position at the nexus of the MCU - Robert Downey Jr. Marvel has somewhat of a reputation for low-balling their actors. There is no hard report on how much Cheadle was paid in Howard's place. Howard was solid as Rhodey in Iron Man, but it was really Cheadle who put his stamp on the character in the two sequels. While Rhodey was pivotal at key points during the first movie, that film was first and foremost the RDJ show. It's the nature of ongoing storytelling through blockbuster installments, and constantly renegotiated contracts. Many franchise roles are recast between films ( Edward Norton's Hulk was recast with Mark Ruffalo, for example). According to Howard, the money promised to him would go to Robert Downey Jr.
Essentially, rather than pay Howard the $8 million for Iron Man 2 per his contract, Marvel Studios offered him $1 million instead. But a day later, 's Tony Rico appeared on NBC's Todayand provided the monetary amounts Howard was referring to. In an industry where salary details - especially those concerning huge blockbuster movies like Marvel's - are generally not widely publicized, Howard's revelations were surprising. Of course, it's now been years since the interview featuring the above revelations, so Howard and Downey could have patched up their relationship in the meantime. Related: Iron Man 2 Referenced The MCU's War Machine Recasting Howard's response was unamused, hinting at tensions still existing between the two actors: Cohen asked how things were between Howard and Downey at the time of the episode. They came to me with the second and said, 'Look, we will pay you one-eighth of what we contractually had for you, because we think the second one will be successful with or without you.' And I called my friend - that I helped get the first job - and he didn't call me back for three months."īy the time of the interview it had been years since that encounter (or lack thereof). It was going to be a certain amount for the first one, a certain amount for the second one, a certain amount for the third.
"We did a three-picture deal, so that means that you did the deal ahead of time. Howard answered a call-in question about the recasting of his role, and also reflected – not so positively – on the reason he abandoned the MCU. That's until Terrence Howard appeared on season 10 of Bravo's late-night chat show Watch What Happens Live in November 2013. There were brief rumblings regarding the recasting of Rhodey on the release of Iron Man 2 in 2010, as is only natural, but many of the details remained unknown. Related: Armor Wars Needs To Answer An Iron Man 2 Question Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2, becoming first Iron Patriot and then War Machine, and many fans didn't seem to mind. Howard played Stark's best friend and ally Rhodey, a character who - in the comics - took over for Stark as Iron Man and eventually became a superhero called War Machine. Howard is a respected actor who had been nominated for an Oscar for Hustle & Flow (2005) following his acclaimed turn in Crash (2004). Downey's co-star Terrence Howard played Rhodey in Iron Man – a.k.a.
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