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Script Analysis: “Arrival” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown
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Jan 16, 2017·1 min read

To kick off things, the screenwriter for Arrival is Eric Heisserer and you can read an in-depth first person article he wrote about his process of writing the script: Link. If anyone has other articles and features on Eric and/or the project, please post here. There are several others I’ve highlighted, I’ll find those and add to the thread.

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