Who will play Jerome Kerviel?

At 3-1 odds, French actor Olivier Martinez is the early front-runner to dramatise how one junior Societe Generale trader ran up an exposure of £3.7bn through a series of fictional accounts. But perhaps his dark brooding good lucks make him a better Bond than a bond trader Photograph: Frederick M Brown/Getty

The handsome 33-year old French actor Benoit Magimel is a 4-1 shot for the role. Like Kerviel today, he likes to keep a low profile (thus our grainy picture). Having appeared in nearly 30 films since he age of 12, Magimel has the work ethic needed for the financial world. This include Warning (what Kervial needed), and Trouble (what he’s now in) Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

Ewan McGregor, on offer at 6-1, has the experience needed. He played Nick Leeson in the 1999 movie Rogue Trader, the tale of how an ambitious young trader caused financial disaster. McGregor is due to be starring in The Great Pretender this year – perhaps a good title for Kerviel’s own story? Photograph: M J Kim/Getty

Jean Reno (10-1) has an impressive film career – Nikita, Leon, The Da Vinci Code – but at 59 he might be better suited to playing one of the French bank’s silver-haired bosses. One of his most recent roles was the voice of Le Frog in Flushed Away – rather like SocGen’s money Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/Getty

Since being released from a Singapore jail, Nick Leeson (50-1) has moved to Ireland where he has written two books and helped run Galway United. If his French accent isn’t up to scratch he could always write the film script – pinning the blame on the bank’s top brass Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

A rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel, has cost French bank Société Générale €4.9bn (£3.7bn) in the biggest fraud in financial history. (Read the article) Photograph: Public domain

No odds were quoted on EastEnders' 'Nasty' Nick Cotton either, but surely the actor and Kerviel were separated at birth? Photograph: Alan Olley/BBC