
Director Jon Favreau had to fight for Downey Jr.’s casting, which is what landed him the role and his massive paychecks for Marvel’s later movies.
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made $15 million for his minutes-long cameo in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, so if he made that much for a movie in which he wasn’t the lead, we can’t imagine what his Iron Man and Avengers paychecks are like.) Per THR, Downey only made $500,000 for the MCU’s first movie, Iron Man, in 2008 because of his reputation at the time and how he was a “risk” for the studio.

(According to The Hollywood Reporter, Downey Jr. (For the purposes of this article, we concentrated on the original six Avengers and the five heroes who have standalone movies.) Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.)Īvengers: Endgame (2018): $50 million – $200 millionĭowney Jr’s exact salary for Avengers: Endgame isn’t known, but the number is at least higher than $50 million (the salary he made for 2012’s The Avengers), with some estimating that he made $200 million each for both Endgame and Infinity War, which would be much, much higher than any of his costars. Find out who the highest paid Avenger is and what 12 beloved Marvel stars are expected to make from Avengers: Endgame ahead. (Though his costars aren’t too behind either.) They might not be IRL superheroes, but the Avengers actors sure have their own superpowers in bringing in big box office numbers. is one of the highest paid actors in the Marvel universe-if not, Hollywood. Ten Marvel films and more than a decade later, and Downey Jr. When the franchise started in 2008 with the first Iron Man, Marvel paid its star, Downey Jr., only a fraction of what he’s making now. Of course, the Avengers franchise and Marvel cinematic universe wasn’t always at the billion-dollar level.

Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are receiving some of the fattest checks in Hollywood. As of now, the exact numbers for many in the Avengers: Endgame cast makes aren’t known, but if it’s anything like their salary for Avengers: Infinity War, stars like Robert Downey Jr. Avengers: Infinity War made more than $2 billion worldwide in 2017, and with Avengers: Endgame expected to make the same -if not more (much, much more)-there’s an understandable curiosity around the Avengers: Endgame cast salary and how much Marvel actors make per movie.
