This article is about the 2016 film. For other films, see. Arrival is a 2016 American directed by and written by. The film follows a enlisted by the U. Army to discover how to communicate with aliens who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. Considered one of the best films of 2016, Arrival appeared on numerous critics' year-end lists, and was selected by the as one of ten Movies of the Year. It received eight nominations at the , including , , and , winning for. It also received nominations for for Adams and for , and was awarded the and the in 2017. The score by Jóhannsson was nominated for at the. An introductory sequence shows linguist Louise Banks's daughter, Hannah, dying in early from an incurable illness. Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft appear at twelve locations across Earth. A officer, Colonel G. Weber, recruits Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to find out why the aliens have come. Weber takes them to an army encampment in near one of the craft. Banks and Donnelly begin researching their written language of. As Banks studies the language, she starts to have visions of a child who seems to be her daughter. Rogue soldiers plant a bomb in the Montana craft. Unaware, Banks and Donnelly re-enter the alien vessel, and the aliens give them an extremely complex message. Just before the bomb explodes, one of the aliens ejects Donnelly and Banks from the danger zone, knocking them unconscious. When they reawaken, the military is preparing to evacuate, and the craft has moved out of reach. Donnelly discovers that the symbol for time is present throughout the message, and that the writing occupies exactly one-twelfth of the space in which it is projected. Banks suggests that the full message is split among the twelve craft and that the aliens want all the nations to share what they learn. China's General Shang issues an ultimatum to the aliens, demanding that they leave within 24 hours; Russia, Pakistan, and Sudan follow suit. Banks goes alone to the craft and it sends down a shuttle to transport her inside. It is revealed that Banks's visions of the young girl are premonitions of her yet-to-be-born daughter, Hannah. The Chinese announce they are standing down and release their twelfth of the message. The other countries follow suit, and the twelve craft depart. During the evacuation of the camp, Donnelly expresses his love for Banks. They talk about life choices and whether he would change them if he could see the future. Banks knows that she will agree to have a child with him despite knowing their fate: that Hannah will die and Donnelly will leave them after she reveals that she knew this. Cohen and Levine, however, introduced Villeneuve to the novella, which the director immediately took to, although his work on meant that he did not have the time to properly adapt it into a screenplay with Heisserer. Cohen and Levine completed a first draft, which Villeneuve and Heisserer reworked into the final script. Villeneuve changed the title, as he felt the original title sounded like a and that the script had become very different from the short story. Linguistics Both the book and the screenwriting required the innovation of a form of alien linguistics which recurs in the plot. The film uses a designed by the artist Martine Bertrand wife of the production designer , based on the scriptwriter's original concept. Computer scientists and Christopher Wolfram analyzed it to provide the basis for Banks's work in the film. Three linguists from were consulted. The sound files for the alien language were created with consultation from Morgan Sonderegger, a expert. Villeneuve decided not to include subtitles for the line; Heisserer said he would have preferred it not be kept secret, and was happy to reveal the translation. Casting joined the film on March 6, 2015, to play a physics professor. Filming lasted for 56 days, commencing on June 7, 2015, after Renner had finished on. The shooting was done mainly in and around , , Canada, with serving as Montana. The team took some time to find the right site to represent the landing, because producers wanted to avoid a mountainous site that might dwarf the scale of the ship, but thought that a barren location would be clichéd. Most of the filming that did not involve the exterior of a ship was done indoors on stages, although a real house was used as Banks's home. The scenes of the university where Banks teaches were shot at the. He developed one of the main themes in the first week using vocals and experimental piano. Due to the prominent use of Richter's music in the final film, Jóhannsson's score was deemed ineligible for the , with the rationale being that voters would be influenced by the use of pre-existing music when judging the merits of the score. The soundtrack was released by on November 11, 2016. All music was composed by Jóhannsson. A teaser trailer was released in August 2016, followed the next week by the first official trailer. Paramount Pictures released a series of promotional posters, with one showing a hovering above a Hong Kong skyline that included Shanghai's. The inaccuracy angered Hong Kong social media users. The posters were withdrawn and a statement attributed the inaccuracy to a third-party vendor. In May 2014, while titled Story of Your Life, acquired the U. Shortly after, and acquired some international distribution rights, while acquired the UK distribution rights and acquired Australian distribution rights, as well as other distributors like Spentzos Films for Greece, Lev Cinemas for Israel and Chantier Films for Turkey. The film had its world premiere at the on September 1, 2016. It also screened at the , , and the. The film was released on November 11, 2016. Home media Arrival was released on on January 31, 2017 and on , and on February 14, 2017. 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