{"id":187491,"date":"2025-12-17T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187491\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:18:08","slug":"disclosure-day-first-trailer-for-steven-spielbergs-star-studded-ufo-movie-steven-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187491\/","title":{"rendered":"Disclosure Day: first trailer for Steven Spielberg\u2019s star-studded UFO movie | Steven Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The first trailer for Steven Spielberg\u2019s mysterious UFO movie has now provided further details on what audiences can expect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Disclosure Day, written by Jurassic Park\u2019s David Koepp and based on a Spielberg story, sees a starry cast deal with the discovery of aliens. \u201cWhy would he make such a vast universe yet save it only for us?\u2019\u201d Elizabeth Marvel\u2019s character says at the end of the teaser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O\u2019Connor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/colin-firth\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Firth<\/a>, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson and Wyatt Russell. \u201cPeople have a right to know the truth, it belongs to 7 billion people,\u201d O\u2019Connor\u2019s character says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It marks Spielberg\u2019s first film since 2022\u2019s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, which gained seven Oscar nominations. It also returns him to the world of aliens, previously explored in films such as War of the Worlds, ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s like old-school Spielberg,\u201d O\u2019Connor recently <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/josh-oconnor-the-mastermind-the-history-of-sound-spielberg-1236394577\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an interview. \u201cI think people will be excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier this year, Koepp called the film \u201ca very emotional experience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI finished reading the script and I bawled,\u201d Domingo <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/colman-domingo-joins-dead-mans-wire-sing-sing-interview-1236262134\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cI thought it was one of the most beautiful scripts about our humanity. I think it was just the most beautiful film about our humanity, and I literally cried because Steven Spielberg believes in the possibility of the human beings we could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The marketing campaign has coincided with the success of hit documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/nov\/22\/age-of-disclosure-documentary-aliens\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Age of Disclosure<\/a> which alleged a government cover-up over the existence of alien life. It recently broke a record to become the most-rented documentary in its first 48 hours of release on Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Billboards have recently cropped up in Times Square for the movie and the trailer will play before the latest Avatar movie this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Disclosure Day will be out in cinemas in the summer of 2026, a season that will also see the release of blockbusters including Toy Story 5, Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey, Minions 3, Supergirl, a live-action Moana and He-Man: Masters of the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for Steven Spielberg\u2019s mysterious UFO movie has now provided further details on what audiences can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-187491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}