The Los Angeles Times are reporting that Ben Stiller is to turn into a Danny Ocean like character for a new heist film to be directed by Brett Ratner. The word around the campfire is that Noah Baumbach has been brought on board to take a shot at a draft of the script which is being called Trump Heist.
The film (which may eventually be called “Tower Heist” — that pesky legal department) is about a group of con-men who devise a plan to swindle the residents of New York’s upscale Trump Tower, where they also work. It’s basically a black “Ocean’s Eleven” (not our phrase — that’s how development people in Hollywood are talking about it), with stars like Chris Rock, Chris Tucker and Eddie Murphy all previously mentioned in connection with the film.
Stiller would play the role originally to have been played by Eddie Murphy. The newspaper reports that Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man), Rawson Marshall Thurber and Ted Griffin (Ocean’s Eleven, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) have all reportedly worked on the script.
Source: Los Angeles Times
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