Based on an award-winning short story by Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life" is a mind-bending science fiction thriller with a powerful, emotional twist. After aliens land around the globe, a linguist (Adams) is recruited by the US government in a race to decipher their intentions on Earth. As she learns to communicate with the aliens, she begins experiencing vivid flashbacks that become the key to unlocking the greater mystery about the true purpose of their visit. Renner will play a physics professor paired by the government with the linguist to help communicate with the aliens.
