As CZ Gets His Sentence, Michael Lewis Should Rewatch 'Star Wars'

When movie rights for the book were shopped around Hollywood, the pitch letter said, as reported in 2022, that Lewis “likens [SBF and Binance’s Changpeng “CZ” Zhao] to the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader of crypto” – and it wasn’t hard to deduce that SBF was, in the “Big Short” author’s view, the good guy and CZ the bad guy.