New stills have come out for the much anticipated holiday release film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Pitt stars as a lead character who is born a little old baby and ages backward until he gradually becomes a child again. In the stills Pitt is looking incredibly fit, although that’s surely not his body as it looks like the torso of an adolescent with Brad Pitt’s face transformed into a realistic-looking old man.

I thought the movie was based on a recent book I read, “The Confessions of Max Tivoli,” published in 2004, but it’s not, it’s based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald called “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” which came out in 1922. Reading the plot description of Fitzgerald’s story on Wiki (extreme spoilers, so I’m not going to link it), it sounds like a more palatable story than Max Tivoli, which really bothered me with its ending but was a highly readable book that I pretty much enjoyed until the end.

Advance reviews for Benjamin Button are glowing and say it’s Oscar-worthy and is sure to win nominations and plenty of praise. Variety calls it “a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling” while Emmanuel Levy says it’s “a big, massive, uniquely American tale, which combines bravura special effects with sharp writing, and splendid performances that are not buried or overwhelmed under the heavy weight of sophisticated and eye-grabbing CGI.”

Here’s the latest trailer:

Thanks to Yeeeah for these pics.