Arrival is a film reverential of language, one that believes it is of the utmost importance and can prevent wars, which makes this error all the more embarrassing.
During a Pakistani news report on the spaceship landing, the post-production team in charge of VFX intended to write ‘BREAKING NEWS’ in Urdu.
Instead, they used Arabic letters going from left to right instead of right to left and which were not joined up as they are supposed to be.
A third insisted: “Am Pakistani, was so immersed in the film that I didn’t even notice.”