If Hollywood can make a good movie about how baseball general managers should evaluate personnel by focusing on a batter's on-base percentage, then it certainly should be able to make a good movie about the rise and fall of an immigrant billionaire who gets convicted and sent to jail for 11 years for insider trading.

And Hollywood is apparently going to try. Deadline New York reports that a company called 108 Production is working on Billion Dollar Raja, which will "focuses on the crimes of the former hedge-fund tycoon and the major players who were taken down in his wake." Director Nayan Padrai says “the elements of this case are irresistible with a mafia-style operation in the shady underbelly of Wall Street offices, filled with prosecutors, wiretaps, tipsters, a moll, sexual encounters, unapologetic greed, major corporations and the billionaire king of the markets, Raja.”

And since sex sells, of course, one of the main characters in Billion Dollar Raja will surely be Danielle Chiesi, who allegedly became "intimate" with no fewer than two men in order to gain information for insider trading. Chiesi recently sashayed her way into federal prison, where she has been sentenced to serve 30 months for insider trading.

Question: Who should play the roles of Chiesi and Raj in the movie? I'm going with Sharon Stone for Chiesi, but I'm at a loss for Raj. What do you think?

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