Sounds like they were satisfied with just jacking the title.
Different title. The story is “Story of your Life.”
I have a good friend that sold the movies rights to a book she authored.
She is at the age where she doesn’t really care if it ever gets made. The check cleared. That’s all that mattered.
Hollywood often does that. What works on paper in a novel or short story is often unwatchable on screen. Imagine a movie about an earth linguist struggling to understand an alien language: Boring! The movie though that eventually emerged under the name The Arrival is watchable, even engrossing at points.