12. "Of course they were dicking him over with money" In response to In response to 8 Tue Oct-14-08 08:36 AM by BigReg
The thing is, if your going to take a L for the sake of your career, this would probably be it.
Your in a megablockbuster sequel that had some critical acclaim the first time around, and you are going to get a much bigger part. It could have been a major stepping stone into him carrying a major movie on his own, and I doubt whatever they offered him couldn't have been that horrible considering they snapped up Cheadle for probably around the same fee.
Especially with the way they bleed franchises, it wouldn't be surprising that in the downtime for Iron Man 3/Avengers depending on the reception they would make a War Machine movie with a diff director+Howard to keep the money rolling in the meantime.