Since Iron Man 3's stateside opening last weekend, there's been a lot of buzz surrounding actors' salaries and contracts for Marvel's The Avengers 2.
But writer-director Joss Whedon wanted to set the record straight on one particular rumor that's been going around: "I'm not getting $100 mil on Avengers 2," he posted in a recent blog entry on his Whedonesque.com.
"Some facts are not facts," he continued. "I'm not making Downey money. I'm making A LOT, which is exciting. I'm not pretending to be a poor farmer, an Everyman, an ANYman. But that number is nuts."
That "Downey money" to which Whedon is referring is Robert Downey Jr.'s $50 million paycheck for the first Avengers. As we already know, some of the other cast members were only paid $200,000 for their work on the film -- although, those figures are currently being renegotiated for the sequel.
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