Fan Casting James Rhodes in MMU/8.: Iron Man 3 (2013)

Rhodey appears in the movie while he fights against the Ten RIngs terrorists in Afganistan. He is the one who first talk Tony about the Mandarin. He later helps him to face off the EXTREMIS soldiers and he became the president's personal bodyguard and got a rebranding as the Iron Patriot. Later one of the Mandarins man stole the IP armor, so Rhodey goes back to the old War Machine suit.