“I am much more inclined now than I was when I made Close Encounters to really believe that we’re not the only intelligent civilization in the universe.” Steven Spielberg, 79, says it to camera in the final trailer for Disclosure Day, released on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. The film opens in theaters June 12.
It is a notable confession from the man who put aliens on screen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982, and who treated both as stories rather than testimony. Disclosure Day is his new sci-fi feature, built on a story by Spielberg and written by David Koepp.
What the trailer promises
The plot follows Margaret and Daniel, played by Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, who get dragged into a vast government conspiracy over alien life. Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo and Wyatt Russell round out the cast.
The director does not stop at belief. “How will Disclosure change us? I believe for the better,” he says in the trailer. “It will remind us of our capacity for empathy, and that there is something bigger out there than just ourselves.”
Sharks to saucers
None of this came out of nowhere. In a behind-the-scenes video from Universal Pictures, reported by IANS in February, Spielberg described a lifelong habit of chasing the unexplained. “I’ve made a lot of movies about things that could not be explained, from sharks to saucers,” he said. As a boy he grew curious about the night sky, and he called life elsewhere “not the possibility but the guarantee”.
He also thinks the public has caught up with him. Questions about what is happening in the skies, he said, have reached “a critical mass of people’s complete fascination,” and he framed the question in plain terms: “If someone knows we’re not alone, why have we not been told?”
Sources
- Watch: Steven Spielberg talks aliens in 'Disclosure Day' final trailer | UPI
- Steven Spielberg talks about his fascination with things that can't be explained | IANS
