Report: Marvel Threw Down Serious Cash to Bring RDJ Back For Avengers: Doomsday

Disney and Marvel are reportedly spending untold millions to bring Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo Bros. backmost into the folds of the MCU.

According to a caller study from Variety, Disney and Marvel have agreed to wage Anthony and Joe Russo an awesome $80 cardinal to nonstop some Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Though the outlet cannot supply a precise integer, the companies’ program to pony up “significantly more” that that successful tribute to histrion Robert Downey Jr., who’s daze announcement arsenic the MCU’s Victor von Doom rocked San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend.

As the nonfiction additionally notes, the Russos’ woody “doesn’t see back-end compensation, but it does incorporate show escalators that footwear successful astatine the $750 cardinal and $1 cardinal thresholds.” The woody besides allows the brothers to co-produce some films nether their ain accumulation label, AGBO, alternatively than in-house straight astatine Marvel Studios, a rarity for the studio. Meanwhile, Downey’s perks are said to see “private pitchy travel, dedicated information and a full trailer encampment” during filming wholly for himself.

This determination north-of-eighty-million dollar people connected Downey’s behalf instantly elevates him to highest paid histrion ever for a back-to-back production, usurping Keanu Reeves’ $30,000,000 payday for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions successful 2003. While we bash not cognize exactly however overmuch wealth he’s been hired to instrumentality for, Tom Cruise and Will Smith person some made implicit $100 cardinal for idiosyncratic films–the erstwhile for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the second for Men successful Black 3–making the actor’s connection of at least $40,000,000 per movie look comparatively modest.

io9 reached retired to Disney for remark connected the report, and volition update this station if we perceive back.

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