Sentence:  "Men In Black 3" finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a <WSD>contemporary</WSD> intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith's stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Modern, of the present age.