The final trailer for upcoming alien mystery movie, “Disclosure Day,” was released Wednesday, May 27, and the director Steven Spielberg shared his inspiration — which only added suspense and eeriness.
“I am much more inclined now than I was when I made ‘Close Encounters (of the Third Kind)’ to really believe that we’re not the only intelligent civilization in the universe,” Spielberg said in the May 27 trailer. “This is a story about us, all of us, up against the most extraordinary event in human history. How will Disclosure change us? I believe for the better. It will remind us if our capacity for empathy, and that there is something bigger out there than just ourselves.”
“Disclosure Day” is set to premiere only in theaters on Friday, June 12.
Actors Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo star in the movie as characters involved in alien contact and how that information becomes public knowledge. Blunt and O’Connor’s characters appear to become possessed or abducted by aliens.
The film marks an interesting achievement for Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg,; he has directed as least one sci-fi movie in each decade of his career according to IMDb. The most notable, “Firelight” in 1964, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” in 1977, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” in1982, “Jurassic Park” in 1993, “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” in 1997, “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” in 2001, “Minority Report” in 2002, “War of the Worlds” in 2005 and “Ready Player One” in 2018.
Since movie teasers trickled out in late 2025, plus a surprise sneak peek during this year’s Super Bowl LX, critics have taken to Spielberg’s new movie and the overall reaction has been positive. The movie rating websites Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb do not have critic-ratings for the movie yet.
Watch the final trailer with Spielberg’s speech:
Final trailer for ‘Disclosure Day’ movie
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This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: ‘Disclosure Day’ hits theaters June 12. How Spielberg was inspired
Reporting by Sarah Moore, USA TODAY NETWORK / Lansing State Journal
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