The first trailer for legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s next movie, Disclosure Day, is here, and it’s unlike many of his recent projects. The famous director is returning to the world of UFOs and aliens for his next film, and it looks to be a big one.
Here’s the first teaser trailer for Disclosure Day, which stars Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) and Josh O’Connor (Wake Up Dead Man), and is set to arrive in theaters in Summer 2026.
This teaser for Disclosure Day doesn’t directly show aliens or UFOs, but it was reported in 2024 that, yes indeed, this is a movie about something extraterrestrial, which the trailer does heavily imply. The movie’s script was written by frequent Spielberg collaborator David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park, The Lost World, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And no, that movie didn’t feature aliens; it featured interdimensional beings, so I’m not counting it as a Spielberg-directed UFO/alien flick. That means its been 20 years since the last one of those, which was the Tom Cruise-led War of the Worlds.
We don’t know much about what Disclosure Day actually is, and this teaser, while interesting and filled with plenty of classic Spielbergian imagery, doesn’t reveal much. When Koepp was asked by the Hollywood Reporter if the movie takes place in the same universe as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he replied: “Like I’m going to answer that. Sorry Woodward! You’re trying to trick me into confirming something that I don’t want to confirm.” So… it seems like it very well might be set in that universe, which would be an interesting way for Spielberg to return to his early UFO classic without directly making a sequel.
Also, as someone who lives in the Kansas City area, I have to do a big “Woo!” about the movie seemingly being partially set in my Midwestern city. Woo! Sorry, it’s the law. I wonder if Mahomes will show up in a cameo.
Anyway, I’m always down for a new Spielberg movie, and I’m excited to see him make another big-budget sci-fi blockbuster after the disappointing Ready Player One. Let’s hope Disclosure Day is better.
