Steven Spielberg hasn't made a sci-fi film in over 20 years. On June 12, that changes.
Disclosure Day returns the legendary director to one of his most enduring questions: Are we alone? It's his first sci-fi film since 2005's War of the Worlds - and nearly half a century after Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The film follows a cybersecurity whistleblower who steals classified government secrets about extraterrestrial life, while a TV meteorologist mysteriously begins channeling an alien language mid-broadcast. Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, and Colman Domingo, it's already one of the most anticipated films of the summer.
But it's the spiritual layer that's drawing a different kind of audience. Screenwriter David Koepp confirms that religion is very much a part of the film - and of his own thinking about extraterrestrial life. Star Colman Domingo described the script as "one of the most hopeful films anyone will see right now," saying its core is about "having faith in humanity" - and that he was moved to tears reading it.
The film's trailer even features a nun whispering: "Why would He make such a vast universe, yet save it only for us?"
For believers, the answer has always been grounded not in what's above us, but in who made it all. Whatever Disclosure Day reveals on June 12, that foundation doesn't move.
Disclosure Day opens in theaters and IMAX on June 12, 2026.
