story line
Britishnoun
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Fitting within the story timeline between 2012’s “Prometheus” and the original 1979 “Alien,” the new film finds a group of would-be colonists landing on a deserted planet and finding it is perhaps not so deserted.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2017
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