Daniel Kellner speaks alien on live television. That detail, buried in the second trailer for Disclosure Day, is the clearest signal yet of what Steven Spielberg‘s next film is actually about.
The film opens in theaters on June 12, 2026. Its premise, according to the official logline, centers on proof — not speculation, not a close encounter, but someone showing you, proving it to you. “This summer, the truth belongs to 7 billion people,” the logline reads. “We are coming close to… Disclosure Day.”
Emily Blunt plays a TV meteorologist based in Kansas City. Aliens apparently choose her as their broadcast channel, hijacking her mid-report and producing what the trailer describes as a clicking, guttural dialect transmitted live on air. Josh O’Connor‘s character, Daniel Kellner, understands what’s being said. That comprehension is what sets the plot in motion.
A 79-Year Cover-Up
The new trailer builds on footage first shown during the Super Bowl but adds enough connective tissue to reveal the film’s central conflict: a government conspiracy the trailer frames as a “79-year terror campaign of lies.” Kellner, once he understands the alien transmission, decides to go public. He pulls in Eve Hewson‘s character, Jane, who then meets with a secret agent played by Colin Firth — virtually, with Firth’s character projecting himself into her kitchen from an undisclosed high-tech location.
“That truth will upend the established order of the entire world,” Firth’s character says in the trailer. “If you do this, there’s no undoing it.”
The screenplay comes from David Koepp, who previously wrote Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds for Spielberg. John Williams composed the score. The full cast also includes Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, Elizabeth Marvel, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Michael Gaston, and Mckenna Bridger, along with professional wrestlers Chavo Guerrero Jr., Lance Archer, and Brian Cage.
Deliberately Vague, By Design
Universal Pictures has kept both trailers lean on specifics. The Super Bowl spot showed a man inside a crop circle, a young girl confronted by what appeared to be a sentient deer in her bedroom, and a group of people with electrodes on their temples, their eyes shifting color. The new trailer uses much of the same footage. The marketing approach is deliberate opacity — enough to confirm the genre, not enough to map the story.
What is clear: the aliens are not passive. They are not hiding. They are the ones pushing toward disclosure, working through Blunt’s meteorologist while the government works just as hard to stop Kellner from translating what she said.
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