Sounds like they were satisfied with just jacking the title.
Go read the original “Bladerunner” story sometime (not the post-film novelization). Borrowing cool titles for something completely unrelated happens in film.
Plan on another ‘World War Z’ing. There’s a reason my movie views tend toward the few $$ Redbox variant, instead of the big screen.
No offense, friend, but you might want to put a spoiler warning in your title.
I saw the preview for this movie and thought it looked very good. Am looking forward to see it. But you just revealed a huge chunk of the story that I did not know.
I’d never even heard of the short story.
Explosions make everything better.
Arrival started all the Global Warming Bull
To Serve Man
"It's a COOK BOOK!"
And that summary is why I gave up reading SF short stories. Too many depressing navel-gazing arty “think” pieces. Not enough plot. Unfortunately that leeched over into full-length books and now it’s darn hard to find good SF/F novels on bookstore shelves.
A movie based on the book “Defenders” is thus more interesting, where they are telepathic to a degree we can barely fathom. And the aliens in “Arrival” even look like the ones in “Defender”.
Anyway, I just wanted to plug a favorite book I read last century.
The Werewolf Principle
https://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Principle-Clifford-D-Simak/dp/0980167140