That’s the question raised yesterday by Deal Journal’s Heidi Moore. Her suggestions:
Tom Cruise – of whom Kerviel’s Paris neighbors say he is a lookalike. But we think Paul Rudd–the romantic love interest from the classic film “Clueless”–wins the resemblance sweepstakes hands-down. Ed Norton, former boyfriend of Francois Pinault’s wife, Salma Hayek, has played men who make things disappear. Patrick Dempsey has the mop and the puppy-dog eyes.
We love this game. At first, the only suggestion the entire DealBreaker Bunker came up with last night was Charlie Sheen. But he already played this role back in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. And we’d want that Sheen anyway, not Charlie from 2 ½ Men. Scratch Sheen, then.
Then a revelation came: Liev Schreiber should play Kreviel. He was brilliant as Richard Roma in the production of Glengarry Glen Ross a few years ago. He’s got what the New Yorker once described as an “uncanny instinct for isolating the frightened, frail, goofy parts” of characters. And when we saw him in Talk Radio he smoked up a storm, which means he can definitely play French.
Who Would Play Jerome Kerviel in the Movies? [DealJournal]
Update: Now the Telegraph is in on the game too.
Ewan McGregor was a step up for Nick Leeson – perhaps Evil will be so lucky.
Tim Sykes would be the most real-life comparison to play him.
A skinny pale Christian Bale would have to play the role, hand down. It would be a perfect American Psycho follow up role.
only amateurs cast roles by how much the actor resembles the actual person.
who could give a convincing performance as an embittered back-office loser who thinks he can play with the big boys?
russell crowe.
I say John Cusack
Damn, someone got to Christian Bale before I could. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers could pull it off too.
Casey Affleck
It’d hafta be an actor that can pull off creepy without being sexy, I nominate a wigg-ed Kevin Spacey
Gerard Depardieu, duh!
hmmm what’s that guys name…? I think it rhymes with who really gives a shit.
Who says the movie version of the guy has to be white? Don Cheadle gets my vote.
Edward Norton
Keanu could fit this guy, but could this guy fit Keanu?
Anybody except Tom Cruise.He might buy the Socgen and convert the building as the worlds HQ of that religion – Scientology and all the employes must be Scientologist first.
I second a vote for Ed Norton.
Gotta be Ed. Jerome’s got that crazy look in his eyes that only Norton could play. Besides that, there’s the physical similarity, too.
Cate Blanchett.