Steven Spielberg Returns to Sci‑Fi with Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg is back in the sci-fi arena with Disclosure Day, his first feature in the genre since 2018's Ready Player One. The film premieres Friday, June 12, marking the director's return after the better part of a decade away from science fiction while he worked on other kinds of storytelling.

Disclosure Day sits alongside Close Encounters (1977), E.T. and 2005's War of the Worlds in Spielberg's filmography, and some viewers are calling it a spiritual successor to Close Encounters even though it isn't marketed as a sequel. The movie leans into the fantastical: surreal, dream-like shots include a little girl befriending a moose and other animals, which adds an unusual air of mystery.

The cast is led by Colin Firth, Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor, and Spielberg reunited with longtime collaborator David Koepp to write the script. The duo previously teamed on Jurassic Park (and its 1997 sequel), War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

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