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Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Riz Ahmed was in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but his latest movie, Amazon Studios’ Encounter, isn't that kind of sci-fi movie. Encounter is about an alien invasion…

Amazon Studios has unveiled the first full-length trailer for its thriller, Encounter, starring Oscar nominee Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal, Mogul Mowgli), which it will release in theaters on December 3, and on Prime Video on December 10. The film directed by BAFTA Award winner Michael Pearce (Beast) centers on Mailk…

Riz Ahmed scored a worthy Oscar nomination earlier this year in Sound Of Metal as a heavy metal drummer stricken with hearing loss, and in the latest film by Beast director Michael Pearce he shows even more range. In Amazon's Encounter he stars a Marine who sets out on a secret mission to save his two pre-teen sons…

Encounter is more of a promising indication of things to come from rising star Riz Ahmed and British director Michael Pearce than a satisfying work in its own right. A not-entirely-felicitous combination of family melodrama and sci-fi bug invasion, the roots of this Amazon feature stretch straight back to the…