Whenever Steven Spielberg tackles the subject of alien life, we get all-time bangers. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., War of the Worlds. All great. Now, it looks like we can add the upcoming Disclosure Day to that list of alien-themed classics. In the final trailer for Spielberg’s latest U.F.O. epic, we hear the man himself talk about his feelings about the possibility of alien/human contact. And how he believes in it now even more than when he made Close Encounters fifty years ago. You can watch the final trailer for Disclosure Day, which stars Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Josh O’Connor, and Colman Domingo, below:
This new trailer also shows us our first look at what the aliens look like. They appear to be pretty classic “Greys with big black eyes,” as reported by hundreds of U.F.O. abductees. This film also appears to play off the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories, which is that an alien ship crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And elements within the American government have been hiding proof of extraterrestrial life for nearly eighty years. The Roswell mythology (mythology?) has formed the basis for a metric ton of fiction in the last several decades. Everything from The X-Files, to Independence Day, to the TV series Roswell.
Longtime Spielberg collaborator David Koepp, who wrote Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, wrote the screenplay for Disclosure Day. The film’s official tagline says, “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 eight billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.”
It’s fitting that a film about government disclosure has its own conspiracy theories surrounding it. Over on Reddit and other places, people are convinced that Steven Spielberg is being tasked with using this film to prepare humanity for the real “Disclosure Day,” coming any minute now. Now, we don’t buy that, but it’s a fun theory. Looking at the world around us, we don’t think most of humanity is ready for such information. They can barely tie their shoes. But we’d love to be wrong!
Universal Pictures’ Disclosure Day arrives in theaters on June 12.