Before becoming Tower Heist, Brett Ratner's latest film was conceived as an urban version of Ocean's Eleven, with Eddie Murphy in the starring role. The title then was Trump Heist, and the original cast poised to join him included Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Chris Tucker. One title and casting change later, Murphy was out,…
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I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone just typing that title. The other day we told you that Ben Stiller was looking to take the lead in a film called Trump Heist (likely to be retitled Tower Heist) which had formerly been conceived as a "black Oceans 11". Brett Ratner has been attached to…
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While I'm not wild about Francis Lawrence directing Water for Elephants, some of the cast additions have me more and more interested. We already knew that Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon would be the primary leads for the picture, which takes place in a low-rent traveling circus. Sean Penn was in the mix as one…
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Movieline caught up with hack director Brett Ratner and was able to get "The Rat" to go on record about the many films listed on the director's Internet Movie Database page. As suspected, most of them aren't happening or are in early stages of development. But the film Ratner claims is the "closest to getting…
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