UPDATED with official trailer: Universal on Thursday released the official trailer for Disclosure Day, the Steven Spielberg-directed sci-fi thriller that brings the director back to the genre that spawned Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET.
The trailer showcases stars Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson and gives the clearest look yet at the story within David Koepp’s script.
O’Connor’s character has access to long-held government secrets around the existence of beings not on Earth (in the trailer, there are black-and-white flashes hinting at Roswell, NM). Hints spill out including via Blunt’s meteorologist, who begins inexplicably speaking in tongues while on air.
The plan is to become a whistleblower and tell those secrets to all (“full disclosure”), something Firth’s character intends to stop. “That truth will upend all established order across the entire world,” Firth tells O’Connor. “If you do this, there’s no undoing it.”
Needless to say, it sets up a Spielbergian race to see which side wins out.
The pic, based on a story by Spielberg, hits theaters June 12. Producers are Kristie Macosko Krieger and Spielberg.
Watch the official trailer above.
UPDATED, February 8: Amid Super Bowl LX, Universal Pictures has unveiled the first official full-length trailer for Disclosure Day, the forthcoming sci-fi film marking Steven Spielberg’s return to the domain of such extra-terrestrial-themed classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds.
Releasing in theaters on June 12, Disclosure Day‘s plot has largely been kept under wraps. But the logline is as follows: If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.
Here’s what dropped on Super Bowl Sunday last month:
The first teaser for the film, released back in December, showed a weather girl played by Emily Blunt not quite holding it together while becoming possessed by some unseen entity.
Marking Spielberg’s follow-up to The Fabelmans, the semi-autobiographical 2022 drama that racked up seven Oscar nominations, Disclosure Day also stars Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo.
Spielberg conceived the story, with his longtime collaborator David Koepp penning the screenplay. Spielberg also produced alongside Kristie Macosko Krieger under their Amblin Entertainment banner.
Check out the new trailer for Disclosure Day by clicking above.
PREVIOUSLY, December 16: The new Steven Spielberg movie from Universal will be titled Disclosure Day. A new teaser trailer dropped Tuesday that you can watch below, and the movie remains set to open on June 12 next year.
The movie reps Spielberg’s return to his extra-terrestrial invasion stomping ground made popular with such tentpoles as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds.
In the trailer we see Emily Blunt’s weather girl not holding it together as she becomes possessed by some foreign entity. Whatever is going on in the world — it also has the attention of wild animals and nuns. The studio’s logline sent around today: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.”
Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo also star in the pic, the plot of which had been mostly under wraps. The story is from Spielberg, with the screenplay from his longtime collaborator David Koepp, who previously teamed on scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Disclosure Day marks Spielberg’s first film since 2022’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans, which scored seven Oscar nominations.
Check out first teaser trailer below.
