Jeremy Renner (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mission: Impossible 5) is joining Amy Adams in the big screen adaptation of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, says The Hollywood Reporter. Renner and Adams previously appeared together in David O. Russell’s American Hustle.
Based on an award-winning short story by Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life is said to be a mind-bending science fiction thriller with a powerful, emotional twist. After aliens land around the globe, a linguist (Adams) is recruited by the US government in a race to decipher their intentions on Earth. As she learns to communicate with the aliens, she begins experiencing vivid flashbacks that become the key to unlocking the greater mystery about the true purpose of their visit.
According to the trade, Renner will play a physics professor paired by the government with the linguist to help communicate with the aliens.
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Blade Runner sequel) is directing the adaptation. Eric Heisserer wrote the script for the film, which is being produced by Glen Basner’s FilmNation, David Linde’s Lava Bear Films and 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine. Paramount Pictures will distribute the movie in the U.S.
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