Disclosure Day
Over his storied career, Steven Spielberg has made only four studio films about aliens: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — the outsized influence of the first two gives the impression that he’s made many more.
Over the past 20 years, Spielberg has favored more realistic fare (Lincoln, Munich, The Fabelmans) but this summer he’s back with an alien movie, Disclosure Day, based on an original story no less. Very excited for this! In theaters on June 12, 2026.
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First comment on YouTube: You can't fool me, Spielberg. I know an Animorphs movie when I see one.
Looks like it pairs well with the new doc The Age of Disclosure on Amazon, which I haven’t seen yet but appears to be based on the book Imminent by Luis Elizondo, who narrates.
This does not LOOK like a Spielberg movie.
The lens flares at 0:49 beg to differ.
Same selective darkness in which wildness transpires.
The animals look terrible. I know this isn’t coming out for a while, but putting (hopefully?) unfinished special effects in a trailer does not make me excited to see a movie on a big screen.
Spielbergisms I noticed in the trailer:
- focus on spectators' faces watching something rather than focusing on the something.
- brighter than normal light shining through windows/doorway/trees.
- chase scene with multiple chasers converging from multiple points toward the chasee
The full trailer is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCYT8vb2siQ
The final trailer features Spielberg talking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
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