Benjamin Button Olympic Tv Spot And Early Buzz

Benjamin Button Olympic TV Spot And Early Buzz

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2008 11:36 am EST

A new television spot for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button aired during the Olympics on Sunday night. A crappy version has shown up online and is embedded below.

I’m excited to see this movie, but I’ve been hearing all sorts of troubling things coming out of the post production of the project. Most movie journalists are afraid to report on what is going on behid the scenes, because it’s very gossipy. You’ll see little slips like, Anne Thompson writes “The early word on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: again, David Fincher has handed in a movie to Paramount that is quite long. That hurt his last pic for Paramount, Zodiac.” The film has begun screening to test audiences. One review that appeared on AICN read:

There is a bigger story going on behind the scenes…