Harvey Keitel sues E* Trade over ad campaign after they hire House Of Cards star Kevin Spacey instead of him
Harvey Keitel has filed a lawsuit against E*Trade.
The 76-year-old is suing the finance company for $1.5 million after he claims they broke a contract with him to be their spokesperson.
Keitel, who is an icon 1970s film, says he was promised $1.5 million to star in three television ads for E* Trade.
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Going to court: Harvey Keitel has filed a lawsuit against E*Trade, pictured in May at the Cannes Film Festival
His suit, according to TMZ, claims that he was offered a kill fee of $150K, just 10% of what he was originally offered.
Apparently Christopher Walken was E* Trades first choice before approaching Keitel.
Now the Reservoir Dogs star says they inked a binding deal with him before bailing out last minute.
The current star of the E*Trade companies is House Of Cards star Kevin Spacey, 55.
They went with someone else: The current star of the E*Trade companies is House Of Cards star Kevin Spacey, 55
Keitel first shot to fame in Mean Streets opposite Robert De Niro in 1973. He went on to star opposite De Niro again in Taxi Driver as Jody Foster's pimp.
In 1988 he starred in The Last Temptation Of Christ and later achieved cult status once again in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992).
His next film set for release if Gandhi Of The Month, where he plays an American schoolmaster working in India.
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