History Trivia / Arrival

* ProductionPosse: The third collaboration between Creator/DenisVilleneuve and composer Music/JohannJohannsson - after ''Film/{{Prisoners}}'' and ''Film/{{Sicario}}''.

* ProductionPosse: The third collaboration between Creator/DenisVilleneuve and composer Music/JohanJohansson - after ''Film/{{Prisoners}}'' and ''Film/{{Sicario}}''.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The movie takes place in the United States, but was entirely shot in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} and different other locations in Denis Villeneuve's native [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} province of Quebec]].
* ProductionPosse: The third collaboration between Denis Villeneuve and composer Johan Johansson - after ''Film/{{Prisoners}}'' and ''Film/{{Sicario}}''.

** The original title was ''Story of Your Life'', after the short story it's based on. After negative reactions from test audiences, it was changed to ''Arrival'' instead.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Despite taking place in the United States, the movie was entirely shot in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} and different other locations in Denis Villeneuve's native [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} province of Quebec]].

* CaliforniaDoubling: Despite taking place in the United States, the movie was entirely shot in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} and different other locations in Denis Villeneuve's native province of Quebec, Canada.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Despite taking place in the United States, the movie was entirely shot in Montreal and different other locations in Denis Villeneuve's native province of Quebec, Canada.

* DevelopmentHell: The story was considered unfilmable, and when a production company finally took a chance on it, the screenplay went through years of rewrites til a studio agreed to fund it.

* CastingGag: Creator/ForestWhitaker plays a military officer who 'recruits' civilian experts with specialist skills to assist with the first contact of an alien species. In ''Film/{{Species}}'' he was a civilian 'expert' with a specialist skill (he was an 'empath') who was recruited to assist with the first contact of an alien species.

** An early idea for the end was to have [[spoiler: the 'gift' to be a different type of technology given to each nation. The US would get a spaceship capable of faster-than-light travel, China a high-tech version of life support, Japan a device to create water out of thin air, Britain a formula to build a hull immune to cosmic radiation, and Saudi Arabia celestial co-ordinates]]. It was changed to avoid seeming too similar to ''Film/{{Interstellar}}''.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/ForestWhitaker plays a military officer who 'recruits' civilian experts with specialist skills to assist with the first contact of an alien species. In ''Film/{{Species}}'' he was a civilian 'expert' with a specialist skill (he was an 'empath') who was recruited to assist with the first contact of an alien species.

* ThoseTwoActors: Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker previously worked together in ''A Little Trip to Heaven''.

* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Ted Chiang, who wrote the novella, loved the film.

** The original title was "Story of Your Life", after the short story it's based on. After negative reactions from test audiences, it was changed to Arrival instead.

* ProductionPosse: The third collaboration between Denis Villeneuve and composer Johan Johansson - after ''{{Film/Prisoners}}'' and ''{{Film/Sicario}}''.
* ThoseTwoActors:
** Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker previously worked together in ''A Little Trip to Heaven''.

** An early idea for the end was to have [[spoiler: the 'gift' to be a different type of technology given to each nation. The US would get a spaceship capable of faster-than-light travel, China a high-tech version of life support, Japan a device to create water out of thin air, Britain a formula to build a hull immune to cosmic radiation, and Saudi Arabia celestial co-ordinates]]. It was changed to avoid seeming too similar to ''{{Film/Interstellar}}''.

** The original title was "Story of Your Life". After negative reactions from test audiences, it was changed to Arrival instead.

** An early idea for the end was to have [[spoiler: the 'gift' to be a different type of technology given to each nation. The US would get a spaceship capable of faster-than-light travel, China a high-tech version of life support, Japan a device to create water out of thin air, Britain a formula to build a hull immune to cosmic radiation and Saudi Arabia celestial co-ordinates]]. It was changed to avoid seeming too similar to ''{{Film/Interstellar}}''.

** Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner have both been in the [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]] and ''Film/AmericanHustle'' together.

* ThoseTwoActors: Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner have both been in the [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]] and ''Film/AmericanHustle'' together.

* ProductionPosse: The third collaboration between Dennis Villeneuve and composer Johan Johansson - after ''{{Film/Prisoners}}'' and ''{{Film/Sicario}}''.