Few filmmakers have had a greater impact on the sci-fi blockbuster than Steven Spielberg. Which makes the arrival of Disclosure Day particularly exciting. Yes, the man behind Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and Minority Report, and War Of The Worlds is back with a brand new sci-fi original, all about the concept of ‘Disclosure’ – the reveal to the public that alien life is out there, and has made contact with humanity. There’s a brand new trailer, which keeps much of the mysterious plot under wraps, but offers plenty of eye-sizzling images. Watch it here:
Mark this one in your summer cinema calendar: Disclosure Day is looking like a total treat from the master. Expanding on what we saw in the first teaser, it looks like Josh O’Connor’s young hero is intent on revealing knowledge of aliens on the public, drawing Eve Hewson’s character into the web of intrigue, while Emily Blunt’s weather reporter starts speaking in a bizarre extraterrestrial dialect. And then there’s Colin Firth, looking seriously sinister, and able to project his image into the minds of others – presumably to unsettling ends.
There are some glimpses of propulsive Spielberg action and suspense here (that train sequence looks excellent), and a Close Encounters sense of awe and terror, with an icy-cool A.I. / Minority Report look to the whole thing. Spielberg himself devised the story for this one, which was written into a screenplay by his regular collaborator David Koepp, and his regular cinematographer Janusz Kamiński returns to capture it all. Add in a new original John Williams score to boot, and we could be in for a must-see summer ride from the master. The truth will be revealed when Disclosure Day hits cinemas on June 12.