Many films end differently than originally planned. However, it is rather unusual for a blockbuster to get a new finale because of another film. This is how it happened with Arrival: The ending had to be rewritten due to the similarities to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Today the sci-fi film from 2016 is on TV.
Warning, spoilers!
On TV: Sci-Fi highlight ended with spaceship like Nolan’s Interstellar
Arrival is about the first contact with aliens, whose language puzzles scientists like Louise Banks (Amy Adams). As it turns out, the extraterrestrials will need the help of humans in the future. In the finale, the communication of the visitors themselves turns out to be a tool for this, which enables a different understanding of time.
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Amy Adams in Arrival
As director Denis Villeneuve (Dune) revealed to Collider, a different ending was originally planned:
In earlier versions, the aliens left behind a blueprint for a spaceship, an ark of sorts. Then Chris Nolan’s Interstellar came out and we sat down together and said: ‘This doesn’t work anymore.’ As we focus […] on the power of [Alien-] Language.
While the original ending of Arrival and the actual ending of Interstellar are not the same, they are similar in some respects. This is how Astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) ends up at the end of Nolan’s film also on an interstellar ark, which could only be built in the past thanks to five-dimensional (!) communication with his daughter Murph (Jessica Chastain).
When is Arrival on TV?
Arrival is running this Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 10:30 p.m. on Vox. If you don’t have time, you can catch up on the film on August 26 at 10:50 p.m. In addition to Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) can be seen in front of the camera.
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