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By Amon Warmann published 16 August 2016

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If recent movies are anything to go by, if aliens come to Earth it'll be to make humans extinct (this year alone has given us the likes of Independence Day: Resurgence, The 5th Wave, and 10 Cloverfield Lane). One of the more hotly anticipated films yet to be released this year is Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, and its take on extraterrestrials - and how we'd respond to them - looks to be a little more nuanced than what we're used to seeing. 

Check out the first trailer below...

It's not always easy to remain mysterious while still revealing and teasing a satisfying amount of secrets, but this trailer just about pulls it off. In addition to a quick glimpse of the aliens, we get a generous tease of the emotional journey Amy Adams' linguist will go through as she attempts to communicate with the ET's. It makes for a very intriguing promo that has me very excited to see how the plot will unfurl, so here's hoping this is as good as it looks. 

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Directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tzi Ma, and Mark O'Brien, Arrival arrives in cinemas on November 11, 2016.

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Amon is a contributing editor and columnist for Empire magazine, but is also a Film and TV writer for GamesRadar+, Total Film, and others. He has also written for NME, Composer Mag, and more, along with being a film critic for TalkSport. He is also the co-host of the Fade to Black Podcast, and a video mashup creator. Can also do a pretty good Bane impersonation.

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