Eddie Murphy has joined the cast of the very interesting sounding Brett Ratner directed TOWER HEIST over at Universal Pictures. He joins the already cast Ben Stiller and Alan Alda for the crime caper, which is being given a script polish by RUSH HOUR writer Jeff Nathanson.
The story sees an overworked manager (Stiller) of an illustrious tower residence who leads a team of defrauded workers in a heist of its penthouse tenant, a Bernie Madoff-type Wall Street capitalist (Alda) who pulled a Ponzi scheme and swindled the staff.The film has a release date set for November 4, 2011.
