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In the same universe as ALIEN?


Obviously there's a lot of similarities with Alien (1979). The production design, costumes (spacesuits) and Jerry Goldsmith score along with the dark atmosphere and off-world labor. Anybody else get the impression that this film could exist in the same era as Alien?

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It's a little ALIENish but i'd say it's more like Total Recall actually.

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It's a little ALIENish but i'd say it's more like Total Recall actually.
Story line with Total recall for sure, but I'll still stand with Outland is just a Western. Yes they threw in some curves like with the meds in Q, but you still have the new Sheriff coming into clean up the corrupt town and plenty of shotguns involved (and the writers had to go out of their way to explain why they were).

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