Ready player one? With his latest film, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg is having a close encounter of the science fiction kind for the first time since that futuristic 2018 adventure.
A new Super Bowl spot for the anticipated summer blockbuster reveals strange things afoot in the U.S.A., including bizarre crop circles, weird transmissions and sightings of creatures who may very well be extraterrestrial in nature. Whether or not they have a taste for Reese’s Pieces has yet to be determined.
“People have a right to know the truth,” one of the investigators of this odd phenomena says during the course of the minute-long clip, promising that the rest of the world will soon receive “full disclosure, all at once.”
But there’s a lot else going on in the teaser, much of which we’ll probably still be piecing together until June 12, when Disclosure Day hits theaters. In the meantime, here’s everything we know about the next sci-fi thriller from one of the best to ever do it.
Who’s in it?
The cast is the one of the few arenas where we actually have some decent information.
The movie stars Emily Blunt, who was the first actor to join the project, back in June 2024. She’ll be joined by two-time Oscar nominee Coleman Domingo, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Wyatt Russell.
Who wrote it?
The script comes from David Koepp, a frequent collaborator with Spielberg. The writer, of course, penned the adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and then went on to write its sequel The Lost World, before contributing to the screenplays for The War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.
What’s it about?
The press release that accompanied the first teaser mostly reiterated information from both trailers, saying “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.”
The earliest rumors about the project’s story held that Spielberg was returning to a topic featured in some of his greatest films. The director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the whispers claimed, was about to make his next UFO movie.
That’s line has been consistently repeated as the cast filled out, and the tagline on the Times Square billboard seems to all but confirm that Spielberg is once again looking to the sky. But what could it be about beyond some lights in the sky?
Well, a popular theory has to do with something the man himself said during his sit down with Stephen Colbert in 2023. During a conversation about UFOs (or as they’re now called UAPs), Spielberg lays out a hopeful theory that the unexplained phenomena are really just us traveling back in time from the future.
Interesting idea, Steve!
Wasn’t the title supposed to be The Dish?
No! That title was sitting at the top of the project’s IMDb page, but that moniker came from a misreading of a Deadline headline about the project in a media column called “The Dish.”
When does it come out?
The movie is due out on June 12, 2026, so until then, keep your eyes to the skies… and Gold Derby, where we’ll definitely keep you posted.
This story was originally published on Dec. 11; it has been updated with the Super Bowl teaser