'If I Could Know, I Would Want to Know' — Steven Spielberg Says His Big Question About Aliens 'Has Resolved Itself to My Satisfaction' in Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg has started to peel backmost the curtain connected his upcoming sci-fi blockbuster, Disclosure Day, which helium says is inspired by the question of whether aliens are present with america connected Earth.

The legendary Hollywood director, who has signifier erstwhile it comes to making movies astir aliens, told Empire mag that making Disclosure Day has helped him resoluteness that precise question.

“If I could know, I would privation to know,” Spielberg said. “Who would not privation to know?”

“There are besides large questions connected what benignant of societal and theological disruption would hap if specified an lawsuit was disclosed beyond anyone’s tenable doubts,” helium continued.

Spielberg is down the likes of alien movie masterpieces, specified arsenic 1977’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1982’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and 2005’s War of the Worlds.

“I person 7 coagulated decades of a immense idiosyncratic involvement successful what lies beyond our atmosphere, successful the cosmos, and what is wrong our ambiance close present connected satellite Earth,” helium said. “The question has ever remained for me: are we unsocial connected our ain planet? I cannot ideate that we are unsocial retired there. That question has not lone haunted me, but it has inspired me. But, I think, it has present resolved itself to my restitution successful Disclosure Day.”

Disclosure Day stars Oppenheimer and A Quiet Place’s Emily Blunt arsenic good arsenic Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple), and Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin). The movie revolves astir what astatine look worth looks similar the hidden information that aliens are among us. In the precocious released trailer, Colin Firth’s quality appears hellhole bent connected keeping the information a concealed for fearfulness of upending the satellite order, and tin beryllium seen appearing successful a location and having a speech with idiosyncratic remotely, via immoderate benignant of precocious exertion instrumentality hooked up to his mind. Even his eyes person changed color.

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Emily Blunt’s character, meanwhile, does a creepy ticking sound portion attempting to work the upwind report, arsenic we saw successful the debut trailer. She is caught up successful the effort to uncover the information to the satellite — Disclosure Day itself. Josh O’Connor's character, who is astatine the bosom of the effort to uncover the truth, says helium tin recognize Blunt's weird ticking noises, but no-one other seems to beryllium capable to.

There are fantastical elements — what whitethorn good beryllium a instrumentality to puerility for Blunt’s quality — and wide thriller elements, too, with Blunt and O’Connor attempting to flight an effort connected their lives. "When the clip is right, everything volition go clear," we're told. At the extremity of the trailer we get a glimpse of what looks similar an alien spaceship emerging from the clouds.

The tagline is:

If you recovered retired we weren’t alone, if idiosyncratic showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the information belongs to 7 cardinal people.We are coming adjacent to … Disclosure Day.

Disclosure Day hits theaters connected June 12, 2026.

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