The American teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has finally shown up online on Trailer Addict. The trailer received huge buzz when it premiered attached to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last month. Check it out, after the jump.
The official plot synopsis: “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins Benjamin Button, adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a time traveler’s tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:52 am
I just want to go on record and say that this will be the best film of 2008.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hmm, i have no idea how can somebody born with that size… i mean he born when he was some eighties, but a baby’s size? I don’ understand that.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:19 am
This film is looking great. I love the whimsical style it has going on. Looking forward to this one immensely.
Pitt is steam-rolling along well. As is Fincher.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:27 am
I hope the HUGE early hype isn’t detrimental at all. Fincher deserves every success this film will bring
@Andrew: at this point in time, to be revolutionary you’d have to say this WON’T be the best film of 2008
June 12th, 2008 at 4:35 am
This is my kind of film.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:44 am
I have to say I’m really excited about this; it looks very interesting.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:15 am
this look great! can’t wait to see Brad Pitt in this. It’s suits him doing less mainstream movies
June 12th, 2008 at 6:19 am
After Zodiac got completely ignored or brushed off, it will be nice if Fincher finally gets the recognition he deserves. That is of course, assuming it is a good film.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:24 am
This looks really good. You know, i would like to see Brad Pitt win an oscar or academy award one day. He can really act good if you push him. Just every one thinks he’s shit because his name is always in the spotlight and he’s one of the biggest names in the world. But the man can act. Seven, 12 Monkeys, etc etc…
June 12th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I think we have Santa to thank for this one.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Looking forward to this! I’ll be there opening night. Fincher, Pitt, Blanchett… could be a classic!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Damnit, we get the plot, but why, why, why show us that final shot in the trailer of the babe and the old Tilda Swanson walking together. You have not only summed up the film’s plot, but given away exactly how it progresses.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:04 am
This will BOMB as bad as “Meet Joe Black” did back in 1998.
Sorry. Big fail.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:13 am
“This will BOMB as bad as “Meet Joe Black” did back in 1998.
Sorry. Big fail.”
The internet- where anonymity and piss poor logic go hand and hand.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I don’t understand why someone would fuss over the size of him being born, when the whole movie concept is more outlandish than that one thing. This movie is going to be amazing, and i can’t freaking wait to see it.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Camille Saint-Saëns. Aquarium.
Check Mate
June 12th, 2008 at 8:21 am
epic
June 12th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I saw this attached to Iron Man. Looks amazing.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Fantastic!!! Fincher is a genius filmmaker. I love this already.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:02 am
That was him as a child at the end that is freaky.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:24 am
i think it looks amazing. really fantastical. does anyone know the name of the song in the trailer. i love how they use that song in so many trailers. such a great piece of music. and yes pitt can act. really well in fact. adding fincher will just cement it that much more. anytime they get together the film is a classic
June 12th, 2008 at 9:32 am
So if he’s getting younger does that mean his brain capacity is lessening to a child’s or does he have the same motor skills as an adult? As a child is he aware of what an adult is aware of and capable of comprehending? When he’s old and first born I’m assuming he is childlike and that’s why the clip shows what looks like him taking his first steps and being bathed.
Lastly, this seems similar but different in ways as well to the tale of Merlin in the Knights of King Arthur. Merlin was traveling the opposite direction through time so he knew the future but not the past. Kinda cool.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am
@ B33: How about a counter-argument?
My points: Like Joe Black, this has a big-name cast, including Pitt, odd storyline, similar tone. Kinda sci-fi, but not quite; kinda romantic, but not quite.
It is unsure of who its audience is, and, as a result, very few people will pay $10 to watch it.
It could be a decent movie, but it will bomb in the box office. IMHO.
If in January 2009 we discover it’s a blockbuster, I’ll pay for your ticket to “Indiana Jones and the Adventures of Mutt.”
June 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I am so excited for this movie. I hope Brad wins an award for it. Oh and he is born at age 80, but the size of a newborn. It’s in the trailer.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Here’s the short story if anybody wanna read it
http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10628/
June 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I CANT WAIT!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
This book is on my reading list though I could be shooting
myself in the foot if I read it before the movie comes out.
The trailer has me interested. I’m not typically a Pitt fan,
for me, his performances go between awful and good. However
in this he looks as if he’s going to shine in this role.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:36 am
David Fincher is defiantly one underrated director…Se7en and Fight Club were 2 very underrated movies in the years they came out{The fact that Se7en wasn’t nominated for best picture but Babe and Sense and Sensibility were still disgust me}…. I think Benjamin Button will equally as brilliant…
June 12th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Dudes are saying that Brad Pitt is on a role. But what about Tilda Swinton! Got to love her!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Jamie,
I love Swinton. She’s been doing excellent too :)
June 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Tilda is awesome. I love her, too.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Jack M., thanks for the link to the short story. I just finished it. I’m definitely in on this movie!! I can’t wait. I think the movie will expand on areas that the story didn’t. In typical Fitzgerald fashion, the ending gets that lump in your throat.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
this movie looks ok…. nothing compared to the 1998 “academy snub” Renegade Force staring Robert Patrick and Micheal Rooker. It conveys drama and comedy with a hint a sensuality in the indepth scenes. A must watch for any true movie fan.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:54 am
The music is from the movie “Days of Heaven” by Ennio Morricone… the exact song is called “The Aquarium - Carnival of the Animals.”
June 13th, 2008 at 9:03 am
@Jason, did you watch the same trailer we did? Cause Renegade Force has no relevance to what the topic is here. Not even the same kind of movie or plot. Not even the same visuals. Not to mention Renegade Force was a horribly acted and written…and definitely not a must watch for movie fans. I would say stay clear of it.
I guess I’m lost as to where that movie is in relation to this movie.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I’m intrigued by this movie, though the trailer was a bit confusing at best.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
someone said he is in his eighties when he was born ,but he was 71.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:15 am
She’ll Soon Be A PedoPhile