{"id":7130,"date":"2026-07-29T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:55","slug":"robert-downey-jr-avengers-doomsday-salary-revealed-breaks-marvel-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/29\/robert-downey-jr-avengers-doomsday-salary-revealed-breaks-marvel-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr’s wild Doomsday salary has been revealed and it breaks a Marvel record"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all knew getting Robert Downey Jr. back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe would not come cheap. But even by these standards, his reported salary for Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> and Secret Wars is eye-watering – if true, it\u2019s quite literally record-breaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Downey Jr.\u2019s turn as Tony Stark in 2008\u2019s Iron Man is where the MCU really began, and across the following 11 years, he became the face of the franchise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His character appeared in 10 Marvel<\/a> films before his emotional death in Avengers: Endgame, and by that point, Downey Jr. had become the MCU\u2019s highest paid actor by far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone thought his journey had ended at that point, alongside the main Avengers. But following a series of box office flops, Kevin Feige thought it\u2019s time to bring in (or back) the big guns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than bringing Stark back from the dead, at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Downey Jr. will be taking on the role of Doctor Doom for two new Avengers movies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How much is Robert Downey Jr. being paid for Doomsday and Secret Wars?<\/h2>\n
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As said, this wasn\u2019t a cheap decision. Ahead of Doomsday\u2019s release in December this year, sources told <\/span>Page Six<\/span><\/a> that Downey Jr. is allegedly earning an eye-watering $100 million to star in the Russo brothers\u2019 two films.<\/span><\/p>\n

To put that into perspective, the nine-figure payday would make Downey Jr. the highest-paid actor in Marvel history and comfortably the biggest salary ever reported for a superhero movie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His previous MCU high was an estimated $20 million baseline for Infinity War and Endgame, which jumped up to an estimated $75 million through profit participation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A guaranteed $100 million deal would comfortably surpass those upfront earnings by a long shot, and would even beat the record in movie history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, the highest base salary was made by Keanu Reeves, who earned a reported $30 million for his role in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. This bumped up to $156 million thanks to lucrative backend profit-sharing points.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason Downey Jr. couldn\u2019t make the same or more depending on his contract.<\/span><\/p>\n