- Steven Spielberg is revisiting both his sci-fi genre roots with the UFO film Disclosure Day.
- This marks the legendary directorโs first film since his semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans back in 2022.
- Disclosure Day release date (international): June 12th, 2026.
Steven Spielberg, godfather of the modern blockbuster, is revisiting his career-long fascination with aliens with another sci-fi project about UFOs titled Disclosure Day.
Joining an extensive filmography that notably counts Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., War of the Worlds, and yes, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull โ as well as Men In Black, Transformers, Cowboys & Aliens, and Super 8, if we count producer/executive producer credits โ this promises to be vintage Spielberg.
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While an official synopsis has yet to be unveiled โ perhaps a clever marketing play that lives up to the filmโs name โ based on whatโs been previewed so far, the central plot will obviously involve humanity coming to terms with the fact that we are not alone in this universe.
โPeople have a right to know the truth, it belongs to seven billion people,โ Josh OโConnorโs character can be heard saying in the teaser trailer.
A little later in the footage, a nun character ostensibly portrayed by Elizabeth Marvel offers: โWhy would [God] make such a vast universe, but save it only for us?โ
OโConnor and Marvel are joined by Emily Blunt as a currently unnamed weatherwoman from Kansas City, who appears to serve as a conduit for the extraterrestrial lifeforms in the Disclosure Day trailer, alongside Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and plenty more.
Disclosure Day has been penned by serial Spielberg collaborator and seasoned Hollywood scribe, David Koepp โ who you will no doubt be familiar with through everything from Jurassic Park and Brian De Palmaโs Mission: Impossible to Ron Howardโs Da Vinci Code/Robert Langdon trilogy.
As mentioned earlier, Spielberg is something of an enthusiast when it comes to the possibility of alien life. To the point where heโs not only provoked conspiracy theories among those who believe the filmmakerโs works are being used to get the masses used to the idea of UFOsโฆ heโs also publicly presented his own theories.
โI donโt believe weโre alone in the universe. I think itโs mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos,โ he began while appearing on The Late Show with Steven Colbert (via IndieWire).
โI think thatโs totally impossible. At the same time, it also seems impossible that someone would visit us from 400 million lightyears from here โ except in the movies, of course โ unless it figures out some way of jumping the shark, so to speak, and getting here through wormholes.โ
Spielberg continued: โThe most optimistic thing I feel about these things we see in the skies โ that the Army and Navy and Air Force are recording on their gun cameras โ is that what if theyโre not from an advanced civilisation 300 million lightyears from here?โ
โWhat if itโs us, 500,000 years in the future, that is coming back to document the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century because theyโre anthropologists? And they know something we donโt quite know yet that has occurred, and theyโre trying to track the last hundred years of our history.โ
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โYes, we surviveโฆ Or at least a certain percentage of us survives that allows future generations to flourish.โ
Itโs worth noting that, amusingly enough, the big man himself also famously produced Back To The Future, helmed by his protege and friend Robert Zemeckis.
Steven Spielbergโs Disclosure Day has set a release date of June 12th, 2026 (international) โ check out the teaser trailer above.
