Remember back in October when word came out that Rush Hour-auteur Brett Ratner was going to be shooting an Ocean's Eleven meets Bernie Madoff flick in town this winter? Well the movie, Tower Heist, has started production on our fair streets—it is filming today at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and around Broadway and Worth Streets—and the first few stills of Alan Alda playing a Ponzi-schemer look... about as good as we would expect from the always game M*A*S*H star—he's got the eyes down pat. Of course, we're still holding out hope that Bill Murray will someday actually play the villain in a real Madoff biopic...
Anyway! Tower Heist has a very curious pedigree. The movie, which stars Ben Stiller as the manager of an apartment building who rallies his employees to try to get their money back from Alda's character by breaking into his apartment where he is being held in house arrest, also includes Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick and Judd Hirsch. And one of the eight (!) writers credited with the screenplay is The Squid and the Whale's Noah Baumbach. The movie is aiming to come out in November and, Ratner aside, we're intrigued.
