Arrival contained one of the more beautifully executed final acts of 2016 and, in a roundabout way, Interstellar director Christopher Nolan is to thank for that.
Based on a 1998 short story by Ted Chiang, Arrival stars Amy Adams as an expert linguist who’s drafted by the government to investigate the global appearance of mysterious spacecraft.
Screenwriter Eric Heisserer told Collider how Nolan’s 2014 film altered the way events in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi drama were tied together.
“And then Chris Nolan’s Interstellar came out and all of us got together and said, ‘Well this doesn’t quite work now.’