Having never heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button before I saw the teaser for it during the midnight showing of Indiana Jones, I had to research it because it was a stunning preview.
The film is a fantasy adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story of the same name. The plot involves a man named Benjamin Button who is born old and ages backwards. From a small and crippled old man, he becomes young and begins to enjoy life as he gets married, has kids, ends up in high school, grade school and even younger.
I’ve not read the story of course, but that is the main plot from what I gather. First Showing did a great little piece on this movie a few days ago and they had a lot of good information about it.
The trailer really caught my eye and the musical score that went along with it was beautiful.
The film just looks amazing and has some players that should make movie lovers drool. You get Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as the main stars, but also Julia Ormond and Tilda Swinton. The film is directed by David Fincher of Zodiac and Fight Club (wow) and the script is written by Eric Roth, who also wrote a tiny movie named Forrest Gump, along with The Horse Whisperer and Munich (double wow).
According to Tilda Swinton, from the MTV Movie Blog, the transformations Pitt goes through will astound us. I have to say, if the teaser was any indication, the various stages of life looked remarkable.
“The programs they developed for that are just going to blow everything out of the water,� the recent Oscar-winner gushed of the technology involved in aging and de-aging star Brad Pitt, who will play Button throughout the nearly 80 years of his life. “I think it’s going to be extraordinary.�
Sadly, there is no real trailer out there yet, only a crappy pirated Spanish version, so I’ll make sure to pass it on when the real one hits the web.
So what do you think? Sound interesting? I always love a good fantasy, the most reason great one was Stardust, but this one is getting major buzz. It has a massive budget of $150 million. First Showing is talking Oscar already for the film itself and Pitt, but of course it’s so very, very early.
Yet…it’s set to release on December 19th and that is prime Oscar season. Who knows?
Sounds great! Some actors really do get the better scripts/movies.
I saw the trailer for this , looks like something out of a circus….it was a really interesting transformation to watch Pitt age backwards…
I saw it too. I’m really excited about this. I’ve been hearing buzz about this for a little while now, and it was really exciting to see the preview.
@AnaDVR, you just like it cause its Brad Pitt!!…
P.S give Jason a pat on the back for us will ya!!
Ouch!
@ Cap’n: I’ll tell Jason you send his love. I guess I was too much for him this weekend. It was three whole days.
TMI!
LOL
@AnaDVR, talk about setting a new bar of performance….
I try.
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