Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” Trailer Teases Aliens, Secrets, and a World‑Shaking Reveal
The official trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day has arrived, and it opens with Josh O’Connor’s character revealing that he’s stolen government secrets that he was paid to protect. When he reveals what he’s filched to Eve Hewson’s character, she has a simple but terrifying question: “Are they people?”
His answer? “No.”
What follows is a propulsive two minutes and change that reveals our longest glimpse yet at Spielberg’s return to the sci-fi genre, one that he has defined and re-defined several times over his career. Emily Blunt, playing a meteorologist from Kansas City, is delivering the day’s weather report when she starts speaking in some kind of alien language; a language O’Connor’s character can understand.
The trailer isn’t giving away too much plot-wise, but it delivers enough stunning imagery and big-league acting to excite any movie fan. Colman Domingo and Colin Firth appear, the former hunting for the truth of what’s going on, the latter in some kind of position of authority, and perhaps a villain, who seems to know a lot more than everyone, and is seen here capable of appearing where he’s not and moving another person’s body from afar.
The title also clues us into what this is all about—O’Connor and whatever allies he can muster want to disclose the truth about aliens to the entire world; Firth stands directly in their way, committed to keeping the secret, lest the disclosure “upend all established order across the entire world.”
And just in case you needed a little extra Spielbergian motivation to see Disclosure Day when it arrives in theaters, there’s a bravura shot of a little girl standing before a glowing house, shot from her perspective, an angle Spielberg has taken in many of his classics, from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to E.T.
Disclosure Day is Spielberg’s first original sci-fi thriller in years, which he directed from a script he co-wrote with Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp. The score comes from, of course, the great John Williams, with cinematography from another longtime Spielberg collaborator, Janusz Kaminski.
Check out the trailer for Disclosure Day, which lands in theaters on June 12, 2026.
Featured image: Josh O’Connor in DISCLOSURE DAY, directed by Steven Spielberg.
