The veil has lastly been lifted for Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg’s clandestine sci-fi venture centered round UFOs and an extraterrestrial incursion that is been speculated on and whispered about for greater than a 12 months, and it is among the best early Christmas items we’ve been given in years! Plus it is kinda scary!
The official teaser synopsis describes the Spielberg-directed occasion movie as “In the event you discovered we weren’t alone, if somebody confirmed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer time, the reality belongs to seven billion individuals. We’re coming near … Disclosure Day.”
Right here on this tense preview providing some critical “Indicators” and “Three Physique Downside” vibes, Blunt (“Oppenheimer,” “A Quiet Place”) is overcome by a wierd alien mind scramble whereas conducting a dwell Kansas Metropolis climate report. O’Connor (“Challengers”) portrays a passionate man who desires to disclose the reality of alien life to the remainder of the world, whereas Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) seems as some scientist wired as much as a sinister mind-melding machine.
Spielberg’s lengthy fascination with UFOs, aliens, and outer area started at a really early age when his father woke him up late one night time to go witness the Perseid meteor bathe whereas mendacity in a discipline outdoors the suburbs of Haddon Heights, New Jersey. This led to one in every of his first beginner movie initiatives on the age of 17, a 1964 feature-length sci-fi film known as “Firelight” that he screened at an area Phoenix, Arizona theater for household and mates for the worth of $1 per ticket.
His Hollywood explorations of alien craft and science fiction got here to superb fruition with 1977’s “Shut Encounters of the Third Sort,” then later in 1982’s “E.T the Additional-Terrestrial,” and extra lately for 2005’s “Conflict of the Worlds.” Now he is firmly again within the UFO enterprise with a darkish descent into conventional alien invasion fare, full with crop circles, sentient cardinals, herds of wierd elk, and a few positively creepy clicking voices. However thus far, no precise aliens or spaceships!
“Disclosure Day’s” screenplay, based mostly on an unique Spielberg story, was penned by frequent collaborator David Koepp, who helped write “Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic Park: The Misplaced World,” and “Conflict of the Worlds.”
To not be a killjoy right here, however is anybody barely fatigued by Emily Blunt in one more alien-centric sci-fi movie after her turns in two “A Quiet Place” installments and “Fringe of Tomorrow?” No? Okay, let’s transfer on then. Oh, however did we point out that the legendary John Williams is doing the movie’s rating?! Now we did.
Produced by Spielberg with Kristie Macosko Krieger at Amblin Leisure, and likewise starring Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Common’s “Disclosure Day” drops into theaters June 12, 2026.
