Aliens are coming to Kansas in the trailer for Disclosure Day, the latest extra-terrestrial movie from Steven Spielberg. Most of what’s known about the plot has been inferred from the trailer, which is grounded in a particularly unsettling scene showing star Emily Blunt‘s Midwest-based meteorologist having an on-air breakdown marked by glottal stops and her inability to speak a single word. The frightful faux pas is presumably due to extra-terrestrial visitors, the existence of which co-star Josh O’Connor’s character promises to disclose “to the whole world, all at once.”
The trailer shows other supernatural-like themes, including a herd of deer that unnaturally stare down O’Connor’s character and a crop circle that inexplicably takes shape in real time. There’s also a flash of a shot showing two backlit hands grasping, an apparent reference to Michelangelo’s famed fresco of The Creation of Adam. It could also be a nod to the image of a child and alien’s hands touching in the promotional poster for 1980s megahit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial—one in a list of many alien-focused films directed by Spielberg that also includes War of the Worlds and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Spielberg developed the Disclosure Day story with screenwriter David Koepp, who previously collaborated with the director as a writer on Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In a red carpet interview with Deadline, Koepp previously described the movie as “an emotional experience,” while O’Connor told the outlet, “It’s like old-school Spielberg. I think people will be excited.” Here’s the logline:
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.”
Also starring Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Disclosure Day arrives in theaters on June 12, 2026. Watch the trailer below:
