Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Universal Pictures has released one last trailer for Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg’s hotly anticipated return to his “aliens are among us” summer blockbuster roots. And the director features prominently, offering his thoughts on the existence of aliens in between footage from the film.
Per the official 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 7 billion people. We are coming close to… Disclosure Day.”
David Koepp, who has worked with Spielberg on numerous projects (including Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds), wrote the screenplay, while John Williams composed the score. Emily Blunt stars as a TV meteorologist in Kansas City. Her co-stars include Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, Elizabeth Marvel, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Michael Gaston, and Mckenna Bridger. Professional wrestlers Chavo Guerrero Jr., Lance Archer, and Brian Cage will also appear.
Thus far, Universal has kept plot details to a bare minimum in its marketing. The first trailer dropped during the Super Bowl and merely hinted at the premise. A second trailer released in March fleshed out just enough details to give us a clearer sense of what the movie is about: a longstanding government conspiracy to keep the existence of aliens secret—i.e., a “79-year terror campaign of lies.” But the aliens don’t seem to want to be a secret anymore, and there are a few plucky human allies willing to buck the system, most notably one Daniel Kellner (O’Connor).
This final trailer gives us more insight into the main characters and how they might be connected. We know that Daniel has stolen government secrets about the existence of aliens and plans to blow the whistle. And as we saw in prior trailers, this does not endear him to the government conspiracy, and they are clearly willing to kill Daniel to protect those secrets. Once again, we’re shown Blunt’s character being hijacked by aliens mid-weather report, uttering an alien language of clicks and pops. But we also learn that she and Daniel have some kind of connection dating back to their childhoods, with hints that both may have been subjects of alien experiments.
Interspersed with the footage, Spielberg talks about how he believes more firmly these days in the existence of other intelligent civilizations than he did in the 1970s when he made films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. “This is a story about us, all of us, up against the most extraordinary event in human history,” he says of Disclosure Day. “How will disclosure change us? I believe for the better. It will remind us of our capacity for empathy and that there is something bigger out there than just ourselves. I used to say to myself, wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of this turned out to be true? I’m now thinking, wouldn’t it be wonderful for people to know all of this is true?”
Disclosure Day opens in theaters on June 12, 2026. Preliminary reactions have been overwhelmingly positive thus far.
