If you have been itching for a new science fiction movie from Steven Spielberg, Tuesday was your day.
The trailer for his upcoming film, titled Disclosure Day, has dropped, and it is trending across cyberspace.
Here’s a look at the preview and what is known so far about the film, which is set to be released in June.
The truth about the alien presence?
The trailer starts with a chilling question.
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?”
The tagline then follows with a promise that sounds like something straight out of the 1980s or ‘90s when big blockbusters dominated discourse from June through September.
Read it, close your eyes and then read it to yourself again without hearing it in that classic baritone voice:
“This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people.”
(Spoiler: you can’t!)
Who is starring in Disclosure Day?
Disclosure Day is being released by Universal Pictures.
It is set to star Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo.
David Keopp wrote the screen play off a story by Spielberg, and we already know that is a winning duo when it comes to movies such as this.
They previously teamed up for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds plus Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Koepp and Spielberg also worked together on Jurassic World Rebirth, which hit theaters last summer.
Spielberg’s Legacy Grows
According to Universal, Spielberg is the top-grossing director of all time.
A career that began in the early 1960s includes blockbusters such as Jaws, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and the Jurassic Park movies.
He is a three-time Academy Award winner, including winning Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Schindler’s List.
He also won Best Director for Saving Private Ryan, which like Schindler’s List was set in World War II.
Spielberg’s most recent release, The Fabelmans (2002), received seven Academy Award nominations, including for Directing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Picture.
His other entries into the sci-fi/aliens genre include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was released all the way back in 1977 and collected some of the major themes that defined the budding UFO movement leading up to that point, as well as Fireflight, E.T., Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Ready Player One.
