Best heist movies of 2010: Chris Nolan’s Inception and Ben Affleck’s The Town. Best heist movies of 2011: Justin Lin’s Fast Five and Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist?

The first trailer for the film was released last week, and to join them, we’ve now got the first two posters for the action comedy film, out on 4th November this year, courtesy of Collider and ImpAwards.

If you missed the trailer last week, then I highly recommend you go back and watch it now, because the film looks excellent. Ratner is the  director who brought us all three Rush Hour films, Red Dragon, The Family Man, the Prison Break pilot (staying on as executive producer for every episode), and X-Men: The Last Stand. And this latest film from him looks to be another great project not to be missed.

Tower Heist stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Téa Leoni, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Michael Peña, and Gabourey Sidibe. A brilliant cast, to say the least, with g a screenplay by Ted Griffin (Ocean’s Eleven, Matchstick Men) and Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour 2 and 3, Catch Me If You Can). And as if that wasn’t enough, Murphy, Kim Cole (Three Kings), and the fantastic Brian Grazer (24, 8 Mile) are all serving as producers.

In the film, Stiller, Affleck, Broderick, Peña, and Sidibe all star as employees at a New York tower apartment building whose penthouse billionaire (Alda) has robbed them of their savings. Determined to get their money back, they recruit petty crook Murphy to help them pull off a heist on the wealthy businessman, in the midst of his being investigated by the police (Leoni).

The first of the two posters shows the heist team stood together at the bottom of the tower, and the second adds Leoni into the mix on top of the building, with New York’s skyscrapers providing a nice backdrop for the poster.

Despite having not yet seen the film, I stand by my initial statement. It may truthfully be more of an expectation/hope, but last week’s first trailer showed a lot of promise for the film, and I can’t wait for its November release date to roll around. Without further ado, here are the two new posters. As usual, click to make them go big.