The trailer for director Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming sci-fi drama, Arrival is now online.
Based on Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella, “Story of Your Life,” the film chronicles the story of multiple mysterious spacecrafts which touch down across the globe, an elite team is put together to investigate, including language expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams), mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), and US Army Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker).
Humankind teeters on the verge of global war as everyone scrambles for answers – and to find them, Banks, Donnelly and Weber will take a chance that could threaten their lives, and quite possibly humanity.
Arrival stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Forrest Whitaker. The cinematographer is Bradford Young, who worked on Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and Selma as well as J. C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year.
There are high hopes for Villenueve’s latest project, he has enjoyed great success and critical acclaim, internationally, for his two most recent crime-thrillers, Prisoners (2013) and Sicario (2015).
The film will have its world premiere at Venice International Film Festival, followed by a showing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Arrival opens in theaters, nationwide, on November 11. Check out the trailers for the film, below