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 elaborated after host Andy Cohen commented, "The word was that you wanted the same money as Downey." According to Howard: The unnamed " he" would be Robert Downey Jr., who was famously paid extraordinary amounts of money for his run as Tony Stark in no fewer than 10 MCU films. when it was time to re-up for the second one, (he) took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out." "It turns out that the person I helped become Iron Man. Speaking on why he didn't return as Rhodey in Iron Man 2, Terrence Howard said: Money played a major part – as it often does in blockbuster filmmaking – but the actor also hinted at other tensions that contributed to him walking away. On the segment, Howard is unsubtle about the reason he left the MCU behind. 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). This has led them to ask what happened to Howard.Downey's co-star Terrence Howard played Rhodey in Iron Man – a.k.a. Fans nonchalantly moved on without asking too many questions however, years later, many of them have taken a step back and evaluated the MCU’s run over the last decade. This is why it wasn’t all that shocking when Howard didn’t return for Iron Man 2. He was then replaced by the current Hulk that we all know and love, Mark Ruffalo. Norton was similarly slated to return in a potential sequel as well as The Avengers, but due to internal disputes over writing and producer credits, Norton and Marvel Studios parted ways before he got a chance to return. The Incredible Hulk, for instance, was released the same year as Iron Man with Edward Norton in the titular role. After all, it wasn’t the first time something like this had happened in the MCU. Thanks to Cheadle’s stellar performance, fans didn’t make much of an uproar about Howard being replaced. In fact, Howard was never seen in the MCU again. But when Iron Man 2 came out two years later, it was Don Cheadle in the role of Rhodey, not Howard.
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