Steven Spielberg’s UFO Epic ‘Disclosure Day’ Unveils First Trailer Starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor
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Spielberg returns to first-contact sci-fi with a global thriller about truth, belief, and what happens when humanity finally gets answers.
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s next feature, ‘Disclosure Day,’ marking the filmmaker’s long-anticipated return to large-scale science fiction — and to the idea that first contact may be less about spectacle than consequence.
The film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, with Spielberg reuniting once again with longtime collaborator David Koepp. The screenwriter previously worked with the director on ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘The Lost World,’ ‘War of the Worlds,’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,’ and ‘Disclosure Day’ feels deliberately positioned in conversation with that legacy.
The trailer opens with Blunt as a meteorologist delivering a routine live broadcast before she’s overtaken by an unexplained, otherworldly force — a moment that instantly reframes the familiar Spielbergian image of ordinary people encountering the extraordinary. Josh O’Connor plays a man determined to reveal the truth of alien life to the public, even as governments, institutions, and social order appear to strain under the weight of what’s coming.
Rather than leaning into full invasion imagery, the footage is threaded with quieter unease: crop circles carved into farmland, animals behaving strangely, sudden car chases, and glimpses of something watching from just beyond the frame. The trailer’s central question — what happens when proof of alien life becomes undeniable — positions the film less as a disaster movie and more as a global reckoning.
The logline underscores that scale: “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.” The implication is clear — whatever arrives on ‘Disclosure Day’ doesn’t just change the world, it belongs to it.
For Spielberg, the project marks his 37th directed feature since his 1964 debut ‘Firelight,’ which, fittingly, was also a science-fiction film. Across decades, he’s returned repeatedly to the genre, shaping modern sci-fi through works like ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ ‘E.T.,’ ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence,’ ‘Minority Report,’ ‘War of the Worlds,’ and ‘Ready Player One.’ ‘Disclosure Day’ appears poised to sit closer to the contemplative end of that spectrum, blending awe with anxiety.
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Spielberg’s cumulative box office as a director exceeds $10 billion worldwide, and his career has earned more than 20 Academy Award nominations, including Best Director wins for ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan.’ His most recent film, ‘The Fabelmans,’ signaled a turn inward; ‘Disclosure Day’ suggests a pivot back outward — toward the cosmos, and toward the collective experience of uncertainty.
Produced by Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger under the Amblin Entertainment banner, ‘Disclosure Day’ is set for a theatrical release on June 12.
Watch the trailer below:
