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Brad Pitt reteaming with David Fincher in ''Benjamin Button"
POSTED ON 07/27/06 AT 5:30 P.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

Variety reports that Brad Pitt will reteam with "Se7en" and "Fight Club" director David Fincher in "Benjamin's Button" for Paramount and Warner Bros. He joins Cate Blanchett, who has already signed on as the female lead. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are producing the feature.

Pitt has been circling the project for a year and is based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story. Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump") penned the screenplay about a 50 year old man who begins aging backwards. Complications ensue when he begins to fall in love with a woman in her thirties.

Pitt is expected to begin shooting "Benjamin's Button" after "Ocean's Thirteen."