A report on Story of Your Life, Ted Chiang and Amy Adams

Illustration for "Story of Your Life" by Hidenori Watanabe for S-F Magazine

Steven Spielberg, who gave Adams her first major role in Catch Me If You Can (2002), was surprised that she did not break through soon after the film's release.

Adams on the set of Enchanted in 2006, which proved to be her breakout film

Adams at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, where she received her second Academy Award nomination for Doubt (2008)

Adams promoting The Master at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival

Adams attending the premiere of Her at the 2013 New York Film Festival

Adams and co-star Henry Cavill promoting Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con

Adams at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards in 2019, where she was nominated for portraying Lynne Cheney in Vice (2018)

Adams at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011

"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others.

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His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016).

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It stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay; it won the award for Best Sound Editing.

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Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the film stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.

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Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life", ranks among the most acclaimed films of Adams's career.

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Arrival (film)

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Arrival is the brainchild of screenwriter Eric Heisserer, who initially wrote the film as a spec script in order to spread Ted Chiang's stories to a wider audience.

Director Denis Villeneuve had been seeking out a science fiction film to make prior to being approached to direct.

The municipality of Saint-Fabien, Quebec was used to double for the state of Montana.

Amy Adams's performance as Louise Banks garnered widespread critical acclaim.

Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.

The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrial aliens who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war.

Villeneuve at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Denis Villeneuve

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French Canadian filmmaker.

Villeneuve at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

Villeneuve at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Villeneuve with Josh Brolin, Emily Blunt, and Benicio del Toro at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival premiere of Sicario

Villeneuve subsequently directed his eighth film, Arrival (2016), based on the short story Story of Your Life by author Ted Chiang, from an adapted script by Eric Heisserer, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner starring.