The movie, adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, finds Brad Pitt playing a character who was “born under unusual circumstances” – a man who enters the world in his eighties and ages backwards. The story begins in New Orleans at the end of World War I and follows Button’s backwards trajectory into the 21st Century.
Fincher’s follow-up to Zodiac also stars Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond.