re: Has Marvel ever missed the mark regarding casting?

RDJ was still considered a risky proposition at that point because of his notorious substance abuse battles.

He’d knocked it out of the park when he could get work, like when Ally McBeal brought him in, but no one could trust him to stay clean.

RDJ delivering in the first movie and saying clean earned him a well deserved pay raise IMHO.


As far as Howard goes, he may have been a better Rhodie but Marvel was right that they could do it without him.