'Benjamin Button' Gets English-Language Trailer
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Brad Pitt, Movie Marketing, Oscar Watch, Trailers and Clips
UPDATE: Scratch that, folks. According to JoBlo.com, the trailer has been taken down at the request of the studio and "Fincher himself." Paramount has then assured the site that the trailer will be officially posted - in all its HD glory - on Apple's trailer site in the very near future. Sorry about that, guys, but we'll keep you posted once they get it posted.
Previously available in either en Español or attached to prints of Indiana Jones..., we can now (cannot quite) bring you the English-language trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, courtesy of JoBlo.com.
Naturally, it still stands that, while the sparse dialogue clues us in on the surreal nature of the events unfolding, the bigger selling point is the scope with which director Fincher and star Brad Pitt find themselves working. It's as if Fincher tapped into his inner Jeunet, and as for Pitt... well, between this and that Burn After Reading trailer, the man's looking to have one hell of a year, and with any luck, so will audiences.
It 's also worth noting that adapting this F. Scott Fitzgerald story for the big screen is screenwriter Eric Roth, whose own Forrest Gump similarly chronicled the life of a man whose presence managed to manifest itself across several eras of American culture and history.
In what is perhaps a fitting sense of time, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button doesn't open until this Christmas, and yet it suddenly can't seem to get here soon enough.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-11-2008 @ 8:40PM
MCW said...
I tell you what, I saw the trailer before Indiana Jones, and this was the first time I ever REALLY wanted to see a movie with Brad Pitt in it. Most men can't stand him, just because of his success and Angelina Jolie, but this movie looks so awesome to me. It's rare that I go home and remember a trailer because it was that good.
Really cool stuff.
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6-11-2008 @ 8:42PM
MCW said...
Oh, and good luck finding the trailer among all of these links.
6-11-2008 @ 8:51PM
William Goss said...
Looks like the trailer's been pulled, but will take your link remark into consideration the next time around. Sorry about that.
6-11-2008 @ 9:03PM
Erik Sagen said...
Wow. Haven't been this excited for this kind of fantasy/period/epic flick since Forrest Gump. There's another more recent book called The Confessions of Max Tivoli that is based on Fitzgerald's story of Benjamin Buttons.
When I saw this trailer before Indy I thought it was the Max Tivoli book.
As for finding the trailer in the mass of links, maybe if you set it to be the Source it'd be easier for people to find? Just a thought.
Keep up the great writing, nonetheless!
6-11-2008 @ 9:08PM
William Goss said...
It had been originally embedded, but then it failed to load properly on our site, and so a link was opted for instead.
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6-11-2008 @ 9:28PM
MCW said...
No problem about the link, you can still find the spanish trailer, and since there isn't much dialogue in the trailer anyway, it's easy to understand what's going on.
I only mentioned the mass of links that do not lead to the trailer, because Cinematical is notorious for doing this. They link to twenty MovieFone links, when none of them lead to the trailer.
It's just a bad habit for a newer writer on Cinematical to get into - ha! I think I can speak for everyone when I say that IMDB links are less frustrating than MovieFone/AOL links. At least IMDB has real/thorough information.
6-11-2008 @ 9:31PM
William Goss said...
Duly noted.
And true, it's a striking trailer in any language.