Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg, 2026)

[FilmMania]

John Williams to Score Steven Spielberg’s UFO Movie, Marking the Duo’s 30th Film Together

[yoloswegmaster]

New promo for the UFO film:

[cantinflas]

Cool shot. I'm guessing he's basically doing The Age of Disclosure as a feature?

[Lowry_Sam]

or promoting a new ride at Hershey Park.

[domino harvey]

Ha! The film is indeed something about aliens but that’s all anyone knows, other than that it’s supposed to be a return to blockbuster/action filmmaking for Spielberg

[brundlefly]

Teaser for Disclosure Day.

[ivuernis]

Teaser for Disclosure Day.

Oh god

[aox]

No comment on a film I haven't seen, but that trailer is atrocious.

[therewillbeblus]

Dumb title, strange trailer, faith in Josh O'Connor

[Brian C]

This reminds me of the Lester Bangs character in Almost Famous talking about Lou Reed.

“If Nolan’s doing Spielberg, and Spielberg’s doing Nolan, then isn’t Spielberg just doing Spielberg?”

[Zot!]

Oof....I guess I'll put a spoiler here if there are people who avoid trailers.

Spoiler

Only a guy born in 1946 would think that the aliens would choose to communicate through a Kansas City weathergirl to spread their gospel. If the greys wanted to go under the radar, the local news is a great way to guarantee only the AARP set would get the message....though I guess this is the plot of Cocoon.

[BoltzmannBrain]

Oof....I guess I'll put a spoiler here if there are people who avoid trailers.

Spoiler

Only a guy born in 1946 would think that the aliens would choose to communicate through a Kansas City weathergirl to spread their gospel. If the greys wanted to go under the radar, the local news is a great way to guarantee only the AARP set would get the message....though I guess this is the plot of Cocoon.

Yeah, how could anyone believe that aliens don't know what the hottest new podcasts and social media apps are to send their message to the largest possible audience? I'm in my 30s and I live on Earth and I don't know what they are, but obviously everyone else in the galaxy knows. Truly nobody is going to take this movie seriously because aliens would know that they should go on Joe Rogan's podcast, appear on Fox News and hijack the show of the trendiest TikTok influencer.

[BoltzmannBrain]

And of course aliens should know to instantly create their Instagram, Facebook and Twitter... I mean X accounts and share Musk's tweets to grow their audience. Spielberg should know better than what this trailer shows, presenting us aliens who are out of touch with modern day communication.

[TheTreeSong]

No comment on a film I haven't seen, but that trailer is atrocious.

Agreed. Dreadful trailer.

[Saturnome]

Oof....I guess I'll put a spoiler here if there are people who avoid trailers.

Spoiler

Only a guy born in 1946 would think that the aliens would choose to communicate through a Kansas City weathergirl to spread their gospel. If the greys wanted to go under the radar, the local news is a great way to guarantee only the AARP set would get the message....though I guess this is the plot of Cocoon.

Spoiler

Aliens using a weather girl instead of social media and podcasts, maybe they're just ancient aliens. They're trying to tell us they've made the pyramids, but they're a bit out of the loop by now, and no one notice.
They eventually learn of Facebook and get a few likes with old memes but no more.

The film end when they try the Ice Bucket Challenge and discover they are allergic to water.

[The Curious Sofa]

In Carl Sagan's (and Robert Zemeckis') Contact, a central plot point is that transmissions take decades or even centuries to reach other solar systems. In it, the aliens respond to a speech by Hitler because it was the first signal ever to be transmitted from Earth via television, though they are oblivious to its meaning.

The trailer does look goofy; more like something I'd expect from Shyamalan. However, I've misjudged a films before based on their trailers. Spielberg's career has always had its artistic lulls and peaks. With West Side Story and The Fabelmans, he made two of his better films, so I hope he carries on like that.

[Zot!]

In Carl Sagan's (and Robert Zemeckis') Contact, a central plot point is that transmissions take decades or even centuries to reach other solar systems. In it, the aliens respond to a speech by Hitler because it was the first signal ever to be transmitted from Earth via television, though they are oblivious to its meaning.

Yeah, fair enough, and that's a good joke in Contact (haven't read the book). I can accept that the aliens have made a mistake, but the idea that the earthlings are glued to the local evening news like it was the 1960s is the part I find hilarious - reminds me of Mars Attacks! Either way, I'm just being a wise-acre, and have a childhood friend who is a TV meteorologist and we have a lot of fun teasing him about how he's a living fossil. In the trailer they make it look like a Kansas City evening news is like the Today Show with dozens of people milling about.

I think we're all just taken aback by just how many goofy alien cliches they've managed to squeeze into this trailer. Very Shyamalanesque indeed. Actually, I thought even Close Encounters was a miss in its day too, so maybe I'm just not the best judge of Spielberg alien scenarios...Jaws 5 is overdue.

[The Curious Sofa]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still my favourite Spielberg film. It hit me at a time in my teenage years when I would have been happy to take off on an adventure with little space goblins and leave this Earth behind. The film also works on several different levels; it's really about a man experiencing a slow breakdown in a way that's not too dissimilar to a Cassavetes film. Like many of the best commercial films of that era, it was the perfect blend of blockbuster and New Hollywood cinema. I still revisit it at least every couple of years, it's my ultimate comfort film. And his War of the Worlds is at least two thirds of a great movie. So I'm still rooting for Spielberg and aliens.


Returning to the relevance of TV news, when something extraordinary happens on TV, it immediately goes viral and reaches a large audience anyway. TV has been an ongoing motif in Spielberg's work.

[colinr0380]

Just wildly speculating (and I doubt whether this is anything but that, based on my own interests) I was wondering if its a homage to the analogue horror trend (we'll only know if the EAS gets used!), or even to that Oddity Archive guy, particularly as he keeps putting up long blocks of TV weather material from his own Mid-Western area!

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still my favourite Spielberg film. It hit me at a time in my teenage years when I would have been happy to take off on an adventure with little space goblins and leave this Earth behind. The film also works on several different levels; it's really about a man experiencing a slow breakdown in a way that's not too dissimilar to a Cassavetes film. Like many of the best commercial films of that era, it was the perfect blend of blockbuster and New Hollywood cinema. I still revisit it at least every couple of years, it's my ultimate comfort film. And his War of the Worlds is at least two thirds of a great movie. So I'm still rooting for Spielberg and aliens.

Returning to the relevance of TV news, when something extraordinary happens on TV, it immediately goes viral and reaches a large audience anyway. TV has been an ongoing motif in Spielberg's work.

See Poltergeist! And Close Encounters of course, which is about an 'ordinary' man becoming a human conduit to the alien visitation. That's a big Spielberg theme (and one that also turns up in Zemeckis's film of Contact), where all of the grandstanding VIPs and wielding of technological power often ends up being forsaken for a more minor form of direct, but more honest, contact between a specific normal human (or group of humans) and the unknown. See E.T. too, but the same idea also appears more recently in Ready Player One as well, and interestingly that trailer seems to suggest a similarity to Ready Player One where we have Emily Blunt's otherwise anonymous weather lady being 'chosen' and 'elevated' into a celebrity figure whilst there seems to be a representative of a (government?) organisation played by Colin Firth (getting into a very Ready Player One-like chair! Or the medical chair for the introduction of the Crystal Skull in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) who appears to be trying to tap into that connection himself. Which as we know from the Indiana Jones films, or indeed Ready Player One itself, never really goes well for the person trying to usurp the main character's rightful claim to the position in order to get access to the forbidden knowledge for themselves!

(I have not seen the early 2000s Taken series, with its pilot directed by Tobe Hooper, as yet to see if that says anything about Spielberg's evolving attitude towards aliens!)

[colinr0380]

I think we're all just taken aback by just how many goofy alien cliches they've managed to squeeze into this trailer. Very Shyamalanesque indeed. Actually, I thought even Close Encounters was a miss in its day too, so maybe I'm just not the best judge of Spielberg alien scenarios...Jaws 5 is overdue.

Ahem.

[The Curious Sofa]

While Spielberg's name got hyped in connection with Taken, he had an executive producer credit on it because it was a DreamWorks series but I doubt he had much creative input. I saw it at the time and remember it to be rather dull. With its Roswell gray aliens, it felt more like the many shows that tried to recapture the success of The X-Files.

[colinr0380]

I assume that "Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Story" did not intend it as a spoiler for her presence but Emily Blunt turns up in there as one of the talking heads about the film, which probably happened because she is in this upcoming Spielberg production.

[Lowry_Sam]

Now I have seen the fifth or sixth trailer for this. I feel like there’s no need to actually see it.

[beamish14]

Now I have seen the fifth or sixth trailer for this. I feel like there’s no need to actually see it.

The marketing is horrendous. Awful poster design with Spielberg’s name on it three times, including above the title.

[Lowry_Sam]

It's definitely the case where if you hype a movie so much & for so long people will feel that they've actually seen it already & have no need to see it by the time it actually gets released.