All of the trailers for director Steven Spielberg’s next big-budget headliner have been a bit of a head-scratcher, but none more than the latest.  It’s that time when a movie release date draws nearer and doubts of marketing staffs convince someone to show more or too much of the movie.  Disclosure Day arrives in theaters next month, and in the final trailer Spielberg himself steps in, almost Rod Serling-like, to convince anyone not yet convinced to see his movie that his next alien journey is real, as if–as he did for the once uncommon phrase “close encounter (of the first, second, or third kind)”–that “Disclosure Day” is already part of your vocabulary.  The creator of two biggies among alien flicks: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, along with a better than advertised adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (among some other pop notables like Jaws and Jurassic Park), Spielberg this time has his final trailer leaning hard into the sci-fi horror of M. Night Shyamalan.  Cue Mark Wahlberg in The Happening “there are forces at work beyond our understanding” or a quick flash of the alien in Signs and nobody would be surprised.  And the theme appears to tie into the ancient backstory of Ridley Scott’s Alien universe, eerie happenings of biblical proportions–they’re already among us like in John Carpenter’s They Live.  Spielberg always seems to be trying to make his definitive tribute to The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Putting aside his body of historical films, just don’t forget the man behind the heartwarming love for E.T. (who is supposedly looking at a Bullitt reboot!) is also the guy behind face-melting villains in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the shark out for revenge in Jaws, the exploding bodies of War of the Worlds, and the ripped apart theme park staff in Jurassic Park.  Do you take your alien invasion flicks with pew-pew lasers or life-changing meaning?  Wouldn’t it be great if Richard Dreyfuss walks out of the ship hand-in-hand with E.T. in the final scene?  Those bony fingers in the trailer sure look like we’ve seen them somewhere before.

Get ready for 1950s paranoia and to get creeped out, Spielberg style.  Here’s the final trailer for Disclosure Day:

Crop circles are cool.

Here are the earlier trailers:

Star Emily Blunt brings the sci-fi cred from Edge of Tomorrow (one of the century’s best sci-fi movies), The Adjustment Bureau, A Quiet Place, and Looper.  The appearance of Oscar-winner Colin Firth indicates Spielberg must be taking all of this very seriously.  And lesser known co-star Josh O’Connor (Doctor Who, Ripper Street) has the kind of everyman quality we saw with Richard Dreyfuss back in the day.  But it sure looks like we’ve seen the entire movie now in those trailers.

Disclosure Day is in theaters June 12, 2026.

C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg