Actor Tommy Lee Jones is suing the producers of No Country For Old Men for $10M in promised profits.

The 61-year-old Academy Award-winning actor claims that he had worked for way below his normal pay scale and that Paramount Pictures had promised him profits and bonuses if the film was a hit.  The $25M film was a major hit, not only garnering four Oscars, including Best Picture, but grossing approximately $160M — a chunk of which Jones claims to be his.

In the Coen Brothers’ movie, Jones played an aging sheriff in the modern-day west pursuing an eccentric Beatle-banged assassin portrayed by Javier Bardem.

Jones has requested that an auditor be brought to in to go through the books and establish exactly what he is still owed.  He also claimed that there were errors in his contract which the studio promised to correct and did not.

Paramount Studios has not yet responded.  It is rumored that Jones has requested Bardem to don the wig and reprise the role — only for real — to go after the studio chiefs.  But that is only a rumor.