#Chinese subtitles for game of thrones movie#
He spent nearly a decade pitching a faithful movie to producers (i.e., no lasers, no explosions, no blockbuster accoutrements) until someone finally bit. Luckily, at the Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest premiere of the movie, Heisserer was more than happy to divulge the translation - but first he wanted us to know how he got there.Īrrival was a passion project for Heisserer, who adapted the meditative drama from the award-winning novella Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, one of the greats of modern science fiction. "It is the most important line you'll ever write." In a movie all about deciphering an extraterrestrial language, that's saying something.Īrrival's big twist is that most English-speaking viewers won't understand this life-or-death line - it's uttered with only minutes to go, in Chinese, and without subtitles.
"It is the line that will scar the Earth!" director Denis Villeneuve ( Sicario, Prisoners) told Heisserer. For the new alien-encounter movie Arrival, screenwriter Eric Heisserer penned such a line, and he felt the pressure. Imagine the fate of the world - or greater, the fate of humanity as a prevailing speck in the vastness of the universe - riding on the delivery of a single sentence, whispered at a party at just the right moment. This post contains major spoilers for the movie Arrival - which scientists LOVE.
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