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Arrival (2016)

Posted: January 17th, 2014, 2:26 pm
by Cilogy
THR reports that Villeneuve will direct the sci-fi drama "The Story Of Your Life." Based on the short story by Ted Chiang, and with a script by Eric Heisserer ("The Thing," "Final Destination 5"....hmm....), the story follows a linguist hired by the military to communicate with an alien craft to try and figure out why they've come to Earth. And in the course of her communication with the aliens, she has flashbacks that could reveal the answer of why they have arrived. We love us a dose of brainy sci-fi, and concerns about the screenwriter aside, we'd be pretty stoked to see Villeneuve tackle the genre. And the premise looks like something Villeneuve could get his (thematic) hands into.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... a-20140116

Originally reported by Monicabbm here: http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtop ... 10#p775524

The writer is an odd choice, but Villenueve doing sci-fi seems cool. Has anyone read this?

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: January 17th, 2014, 3:06 pm
by Jax_Teller
Very very interesting.

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: January 17th, 2014, 6:21 pm
by FuturePast
Aaron Guzikowski was a odd choice too for Prisoners, Contraband sucked big time, I'm sure it's a great script, Villeneuve said he wanted to choose the best one...turned down big franchises opportunities (Terminator 5, Star Trek 3)

Lot of projects on his agenda, let's see what he'll do first :think:

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: January 18th, 2014, 2:48 pm
by oracle86
Those interested in the story can read it here - http://www.ime.usp.br/~jstern/miscellan ... iang98.pdf

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: January 18th, 2014, 2:51 pm
by Atlas Retreat
Now Where Was I ? wrote:Aaron Guzikowski was a odd choice too for Prisoners, Contraband sucked big time, I'm sure it's a great script, Villeneuve said he wanted to choose the best one...turned down big franchises opportunities (Terminator 5, Star Trek 3)

Lot of projects on his agenda, let's see what he'll do first :think:
Prisoners' script sucked.

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: March 6th, 2014, 8:22 pm
by FuturePast
http://www.journaldequebec.com/2014/03/ ... villeneuve

Sorry its a french interview in my local newspaper, but Villeneuve confirmed he will shoot it in spring 2015 (and he will shoot a Movie called Sicario this summer before starting this)

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: April 1st, 2014, 10:33 am
by Monicabbm
I'm curious about the status of two projects that you're developing: one with Jessica Chastain, and the sci-fi "Stories of Your Life."

The first one with Jessica Chastain is an adaptation of the Russell Banks book "The Darling." [It's a] very strong story but it's in development right now, we are working on the screenplay and it won't be my next project. "The Story of Your Life" is a sci-fi movie that is based on a short story written by Ted Chiang, which deals with the poetry of words and the strength of language and how language contains your perception of the world. It's really about a university linguist that is hired by the US government to try to translate the language of extra terrestrials that just landed on Earth. It's very poetic, and a strong take on an alien landing on Earth. It's very original, very fresh and very inspiring. I'm very excited about that project. I'm supposed to shoot it at the beginning of 2015.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... s-20140317

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: April 1st, 2014, 3:13 pm
by oracle86
Eventhough I had posted the link for the short story earlier, I had never read it. So I just read it now and I am left spellbound by its style. I am interested to see how they go about adapting it and bring out the visual aspects, as the story is mainly abstract and concerned with linguistics and physics. Would really love to read the script, so if anyone has a link, please do PM me.

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: April 2nd, 2014, 9:11 am
by oracle86
BREAKING: Amy Adams is in talks for the lead role.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/amy-ada ... your-life/

She would be a great choice, IMHO. :thumbup:

Re: The Story of Your Life (Denis Villenueve)

Posted: April 2nd, 2014, 10:49 am
by FuturePast
oracle86 wrote:BREAKING: Amy Adams is in talks for the lead role.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/amy-ada ... your-life/

She would be a great choice, IMHO. :thumbup:
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