Brad Pitt has agreed to star in the long-in-development Paramount/Warner Bros. production, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, reports VARIETY. The film will reunite Pitt with FIGHT CLUB director David Fincher and BABEL co-star Cate Blanchett. The project has been developed for more than a decade in several different incarnations.
Written by Eric Roth from a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the drama follows a man (Pitt) who at age 50 begins aging backward. Complications ensue when he falls in love with a woman of 30 (Blanchett). BUTTON will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. The production will start filming in late fall.
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