Brad Pitt has committed to star in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a Paramount/Warner Bros. co-production, which he'll make after he reprises his role this summer in the Steven Soderbergh-directed "Ocean's Thirteen" reports Variety.

Pitt is also considering Universal's "State of Play," the Americanized adaptation of the acclaimed British miniseries which Matthew Carnahan is writing. Pitt is interested in playing a journalist and former campaign manager of a fast-rising politician who unravels a murder conspiracy involving his former boss.

"Button" re-teams Pitt with his "Fight Club" director David Fincher and Cate Blanchett, his "Babel" co-star. The project has been developed for more than a decade in several different incarnations.

Scripted by Eric Roth from a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, drama casts Pitt as a man who hits age 50 and begins aging backward. Complications ensue when he falls in love with a woman of 30. "Button" is likely to start production in the late fall.