Source: Variety

Brett Ratner

Scribes Adam Cooper and Bill Collage are negotiating to write the screenplay, while Brian Grazer will produce.

The new project, follows a couple of blue-collar guys who aspire to pull off the perfect heist, will be played for laughs. The plot came out of a meeting between Grazer and Murphy, who've collaborated in the past on such pics as "The Nutty Professor" and "Bowfinger."

Murphy hatched the idea and expressed a desire to work with Rock, who is coming off "The Longest Yard" and voicing "Madagascar." They enlisted Ratner, who's directed buddy comedies "Rush Hour" and "Money Talks," says the trade.

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