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A young engineer wakes up from cryo-sleep during a routine deep space flight on the star freighter ‘Mayflower’. The ship’s computer informs him that he was awoken due to a false alarm. But all is not as it seems…

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Christopher Goodman - Director Benjamin Farry - Writer Neill Gorton - Story National Film and Television School - Producer Samuel Hunt - Producer Nikolay Savov - Producer Jason Ryall - Key Cast Thibault Chavanis - Composer Jon Muschamp - Cinematographer Mdhamiri A Nkemi - Editor David Tinto - Production Design Sam Boulton - Sound Designer

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[–] BreadOven 3 points 1 day ago

Ah, is that part of what happened on the Event Horizons "lost years"?