Update:
Last night during the Super Bowl, Universal debuted a new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi event film, Disclosure Day. The promo finds the legendary filmmaker exploring our skies, searching among the stars for answers to some of life’s most puzzling questions. While the Super Bowl spot was enough to whet our appetites, commercial time during the biggest game of the year is expensive, so Universal would release a follow-up video the next day, partly to save some bucks. The new promo puts Spielberg front and center, with the iconic filmmaker discussing what inspired the story and its themes in Disclosure Day.
“I’ve always been fascinated with things that cannot be explained,” Spielberg says in the new promo. “When I was just a little kid, I remember developing a real curiosity about the sky at night, and what’s happening up there. And, also, not the possibility, but the guarantee that there is life off this planet,” Spielberg continues.
Original Article:
Steven Spielberg has brought us a couple of the most iconic alien films with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial. Now the blockbuster maestro has returned to the sci-fi world with a new UFO movie that remained shrouded in secret…until recently. The new movie, Disclosure Day, hints at a day when the secrets of alien life will be revealed to the world. David Koepp wrote the film’s screenplay, based on a story by Spielberg. A few months ago, Universal dropped the first teaser for the film (see it lower in the article), but to mark the Super Bowl, they released a brand new Big Game trailer that’s packed with action and carnage, giving us more of a hint as to what Spielberg might have in store for us.
The official press release reads:
Universal Pictures is proud to release a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars SAG winner and Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and two-time Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin).
Based on a story by Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Combined, those films earned more than $3 billion worldwide. Koepp also wrote the script for this 2025’s Jurassic World Rebirth.
Disclosure Day is produced by five-time Academy Award® nominee Kristie Macosko Krieger (The Fabelmans, West Side Story) and by Spielberg for Amblin Entertainment. The executive producers are Adam Somner and Chris Brigham.
Here’s the first trailer Universal unveiled for Disclosure Day:
At 93 years old, it would be understandable if John Williams elected to step away, but he is set to compose the score for the project. This will mark his 30th collaboration with Spielberg, with the first being The Sugarland Express, all the way back in 1974.
Williams previously hinted that he was considering retiring after he completed his scores for The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but he later changed his mind. “I’ll stick around for awhile,” Williams said. “I can’t retire from music. A day without music is a mistake.” He added that his decades-long collaboration with Spielberg was as good a reason as any not to retire. “One thing Steven isn’t is a man you can say no to,” he said.
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