Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day teaser revives the awe I felt watching Signs as a kid. The sense that something enormous is approaching, but we only see the ripples, is what Spielberg has been great at creating.
We are not shown the threat yet; we are invited to sense it. The slow-burning unease mirrors the experience of watching Signs for the first time, when terror felt hard from the silent suggestions and not any explicit visuals.
Plot details of Disclosure Day (2026)
Disclosure Day is written by David Koepp, who also wrote Jurassic Park, and is typically based on a Steven Spielberg story related to aliens. After Spielberg’s 2022 film, The Fabelmans, this will be his new film, with a release date set for next year.
The official synopsis of the film mentions finding the truth and knowing that you are not alone. How will a person feel if someone proves it to you? Will that scare you? Full plot details are kept under covers but it still goes on to cite “we are coming close to Disclosure Day”.
The full teaser can be viewed here:
Director’s vision for the film
Spielberg has previously explored the world of aliens in ET (1982), War of the Worlds (2005), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He is a master of tantalizing his fans with the uncanny details, which he already did in the teaser.
He knows when the right time is to reveal the plot and leave the viewers with the primal feeling of anticipation. Some of the most powerful moments in the teaser do not come from what we see, but from something that we haven’t seen yet.
This is exactly what Spielberg is aiming at, and this is why Disclosure Day is claimed to be one of the most “mysterious” films of the year. Spielberg seemed to merge his lifelong fascination with how awe, fear, and wonder can present a world that is subtly disrupted.
Rather than offering immediate answers, Spielberg maintains the whispers, provoking us to think: How will humanity respond when the truth finally arrives? Spielberg appears to envision the slow realization rather than jumping onto a single explosive event.
Why does the Disclosure Day teaser feel so much like Signs (2002)?
The first thing that I noticed in the film’s trailer, which took me back to me to my teenage years, is the crop circles, as was first seen by me in 2002, M. Night Shyamalan’s film Signs. I was mesmerized by these mysterious circles that were formed overnight in the fields of southern England.
These large-scale geometric shapes, spirals, and assumingly, Celtic knots soon became a rage in the 1970s/80s. People started linking them to UFOs and unexplained phenomena.
My suspense and fascination didn’t stop there. I continued to look for more details and found that two Englishmen had even confessed to creating many. Still, a large number of people weren’t convinced and deemed them as alien messages or landing signs.
The film has grabbed some eyeballs since billboards were up in Times Square, where apparently an inverted eye with a silhouette of a bird was revealed along with an ominous tagline, “All will be revealed.” The film’s marketing leans heavily into this atmosphere of quiet dread.
Even the trailer has many animals shown, especially the buck and cardinal. Many shots show the presence of animals here and there, which suggests that the animals will have to play a prominent part in the film. It is unclear at this point what.
In Signs too, animals were the first ones to sense something was wrong, acting as the silent indicators of an unseen presence. This repeated inclusion here suggests a similar symbolic role.
After watching the trailer, it is assumed that Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place), who portrays a weather anchor in Kansas City, is somehow unwell. Her voice stutters and utters creepy alien-like sounds. She might be acting as a conduit, making her their medium.
When Blunt’s 2007 horror mystery film, Wind Chill, was about to be released, she opened up in an interview with JoBlo that she “loathes” horror movies. There are two reasons that she liked to take on roles like these: for her 16-year-old brother and herself.
“I’m someone who likes to be challenged, and I like the idea of playing that absolute disabling fear. We’ve all had awful times when we’ve been frightened by something.” [Source]
Josh O’Connor is emerging as a fine actor, as he has recently done a fine job in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025). He is also seen speaking in the trailer about the people deserving to know the truth. His eyes also change color, signalling O’Connor’s character is the medium again?
As someone who grew up on Spielberg and Shyamalan films, I’ve long been drawn to slow-burn science fiction that prioritizes atmosphere over spectacle. They didn’t rush to show everything all at once; they relied on tension over excess.
Several unanswered questions and the discomforting tone in the trailer are the same nostalgia as Signs. I feel like standing at the edge of the unknown once again, equal parts terrified and mesmerized.
When is Disclosure Day (2026) releasing?
Universal Pictures has slated Disclosure Day (2026) for a theatrical release on June 12, 2026.
Genre: Alien invasion, sci-fi
Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: David Koepp, Steven Spielberg
Producers: Kiristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg
Release date: June 12, 2026
Movie runtime: – –
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