The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of acclaimed UK television probably saw this coming. So many great series have been adapted or are on the verge, and one notable political project was missing: House of Cards, originally broadcast in 1990. Now David Fincher and his The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screenwriter Eric Roth are re-teaming to adapt the series into an ongoing hour-long drama for US television. THR reports that no network has...  

Director David Fincher will remake a 1970s movie based on a long out-of-print novel, Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Fincher's last film adapted an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story into an epic Oscar-nominated film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." According to Paste magazine, the new adaptation will focus on headier material. The original was directed by J. Lee Thompson (director of Cape Fear) and caused a stir with incest themes. The new...  

After directing his next film, The Social Network, Academy Award-nominated director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) will reunite with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker for the first time since the two paired on Seven in 1995. According to THR, Fincher is attached to direct a remake of the 1975 movie The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, which Walker will adapt from the book of the same name by Max Ehrlich. The original film...  

MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 11/01/09 -- Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt has escaped with just his ego bruised after being involved in a minor accident on his motorbike. The star of Inglorious and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was said to be weaving through traffic when his handlebar clipped a parked vehicle. The incident, which happened in LA, sent Pitt crashing to the floor, but he was quick to get to his feet and move...