Sicario director Denis Villeneuves tackling the sci-fi film Story Of Your Life next.
What is it, and why should we look forward to it?
Yet relatively few movies have seriously explored what the philosophical impact of a visitation would be.
What if their language was so different from ours that communication seems impossible?
This is, at least in part, the premise behindStory Of Your Life,due out next year.
So what is this curious-sounding sci-fi movie, and why should we be excited about it?
The artifacts, Dr Banks soon learns, are two-way communication devices.
Their written language, a psychedelic spiders web of symbols and lines, is even more complex.
Nevertheless, theres an undeniable energy, a kind of X-factor at play in Chiangs writing.
Story Of Your Lifealso shares that films biblical allusions.
But it could also be one that brings his filmmaking talent to a different audience.
