After some sort of disagreement, the role of Tony Stark’s best friend Jim Rhodes originally played by Terrence Howard in Iron Man, has been re-cast with Don Cheadle for the eventual Iron Man 2.

The exact reasons behind this unexpected turn of events is unknown, but it’s looking like some stupid monetary disagreement. Someone needs to chat with whoever is negotiating these deals, as it’s never a good omen to have disputes like this and this already makes two for the young project after difficulties arose while trying to reach a deal with director Jon Favreau.

Although Don Cheadle is a great actor, it will only hurt the second movie for fans when they have to warm up to a whole new Rhodey — especially with that character looking to expand in a huge way as War Machine at some point in the franchise. It’s just plain and simple weird to have a face to a character and then have that face change… EVEN in the world of superheroes.

This announcement comes really, really early as it’ll be a while before we see anything on Iron Man 2, so who knows if this will actually hold up. At the moment, it seems to be pretty finalized though.

[Source: THR]