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Denis Villeneuve's 'ARRIVAL'

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As someone who appreciates well-done alien films, I have high hopes for this. Admittedly the screenwriter had me concerned from the onset, but I have faith in the director. Between Prisoners and Sicario, he's moving up my list of directors to watch.

And I hope they don't get too cute with the alien designs.
 
Boom get your hand's on Polytechnique and Incendies. Arguably his two strongest films. I'm not counting Sicario as I've not seen it but I know it will be another great film from Villeneuve.
 
Interview from TIFF

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...eads-blade-runner-sequel-more-20150917?page=2

“Story Of Your Life” is a sci-fi film about communication, right? That seems like an interesting way to approach sci-fi more cerebrally.

It's how language influences your perception of reality. It's a very beautiful and powerful story. It was important for me to do this because after “Polytechnique”and “Incendies,” “Prisoners,” and “Sicario,” I found that I need to take a break out of darkness. "Story of Your Life" is very emotional and more light, and I just needed to go there for a while.

But what’s it about exactly?

 The movie starts with the landing of alien spaceships everywhere in the world, in random places. Places that have no meaning and there is nothing happening. It's like a real positive invasion movie. The spaceships are landing, and nothing is happening. It's the story of a linguist, played by Amy Adams, that is hired by the U.S. government, to go ahead and get in contact with those aliens inside and to try to understand why they are on Earth. Is a very poignant story.
 
Wrong Villeneuve movie thread Sam.:o But she would be good and BR2 doesn't have a female lead yet.

Should get a mod to shorten the thread title up. This get's confusing. :funny:
 
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/02/denis-villeneuve-new-blade-runner-movie?xid=IFT-Section

Sicario director Denis Villeneuve is a very busy man. In addition to promoting his drug cartel thriller starring Emily Blunt, he is in post-production on his next film — the sci-fi drama Story of Your Life starring Amy Adams as a linguist charged with translating the language of an alien population that’s landed on Earth.

The script from Eric Heisserer “was one of the most moving stories I’ve read in my life,” Villeneuve says. “It’s a very strong and beautiful story about how language effects your perception of reality.”
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We are months from a #SOYL trailer but this wall art at FilmNation's lobby gets me all excited.
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Michael Stuhlbarg on Story of Your Life


http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompson...mbs-emotion-in-trumbo-and-steve-jobs-20151120

And Denis Villeneuve’s film “Story of Your Life"?

 That’s with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. It’s based on a short story by Ted Chiang about aliens coming to the Earth.

So you’re not playing a real person.

 [Laughs] I know. For the first time in a while. It’s very realistic sci-fi. What would we do if this were to actually happen? These twelve ships land in twelve different places in the world. All of a sudden, everything political that’s going on on our planet stops, because we’re placed in a situation where these ships are hovering above our countries, and we don’t know what they’re doing here, where they came from, what they want.


Amy plays a linguist; Jeremy plays a theoretical physicist; Forest is the head of the military; I’m a sort of mysterious CIA analyst, or something like that, and we’re all charged to figure out how to start communicating. They start welcoming us into their ships to communicate with them, and this evolutionary thing starts to happen. I love Denis’s films, in particular the mood he seems to set and his rhythms. It’s about mystery and being unsettled.
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Updates from the editor and composer of Sicario who are teaming up with Denis Villeneuve again for SOYL.

http://deadline.com/2015/11/sicario-editor-joe-walker-interview-denis-villeneuve-1201638837/

Before I started recording the conversation, you said something great, which was, “It’s not every day that you get to be inventing a new lifeform.” What can you tell us about Story of Your Life, Villeneuve’s next that you also are editing?

It’s a big departure from Sicario, and I suppose it’s in the trajectory moving forward—he’s doing a very, very big sci-fi film next, which is Blade Runner 2. So we’re in the middle, but this is an amazing piece. I don’t know how much I’m allowed to tell you, but it’s Amy Adams and aliens, and it’s not often you say those words together. It all seems to be very hushed up. It’s from a short story that is really great, and we’re about halfway through our final cut. We had a day yesterday, which was just superbly inspiring. Some VFX work came in, and we had a good look at the aliens and where they’re at in the development process at the moment, and we were just dancing around with excitement because it’s really going well. I think it’s going to be phenomenal.
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http://deadline.com/2015/12/johann-johannsson-sicario-composer-oscars-best-score-1201664692/

What can you tell us about the projects you’re composing for next?

I’m working on Denis’ next film, Story of Your Life. It’s a science-fiction film starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. It’s a very exciting film with a really great script, and it’s fairly early in the process. I wrote some music this summer just before they started shooting, and it looks like some of that music is going to end up in the film. I’m really just beginning the process now of writing and composing the score, so it’s kind of early days.
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As long as he doesn't make another Enemy.
 
While I don't agree with Kane entirely out of all the Denis films that have got theatrical releases, Enemy is at the bottom of that list. But still it's mind f**k of a film. :funny:
 
As I said many times, it started off amazing but then peters off into incoherence. Not only the ending doesn't make sense, everything leading up to it doesn't make logical sense.
 
A couple of days old new but some lucky people at the Berlinale (Berlin Flim Festival) got a an early glimpse of this. Bradford Young is the Cinematographer on this.

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#Berlinale picks. FilmNation's promo footage for Denis Villeneuve's Story Of Your Life & Michael Keaton starter The Founder looked stunning.
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Test screening's were happening on this over the last two days and we've got a new synopsis.

This just sounds epic. :hmr:

http://www.liffed.com/9139-2/

When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team is put together to investigate – including language expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams). Mankind teeters on the verge of global war as everyone scrambles for answers – and to find them, Banks will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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