DISCLOSURE DAY CinemaCon Footage Teases Aliens, Conspiracies, Strange Math, and a Whole Lot of Questions
There’s already a packed slate of summer movies on the way, but Disclosure Day is carving out its own lane as one of the most intriguing titles on the horizon.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film marks his return after four years, and based on what’s been shown so far, it’s leaning hard into eerie sci-fi territory with a conspiracy edge that feels is massive and unsettling.
While we’ve seen a couple of trailers already, the new footage screened at CinemaCon in Las Vegas has taken things to another level. While that footage hasn’t been released publicly, I can tell you it teases a story that’s way bigger and stranger than expected.
The footage opens on an odd moment with a bird flies through a window and lands right in front of Emily Blunt’s character. From there, things escalate quickly as she rushes to deliver a weather report for a Kansas City news station. Then comes the twist that hooked everyone in the first trailer, her suddenly speaking in an alien language on live TV.
From there, Josh O’Connor’s character reveals he’s stolen footage and plays it back. What’s on the screen is disturbing. We see people moving bodies on stretchers. He makes it clear that they aren’t children, and they clearly aren’t human. This footage terrifies the woman that he’s showing it to.
Meanwhile, Colin Firth’s character begins tracking down Blunt after the broadcast incident, suggesting that whatever’s happening is already spiraling out of control. O’Connor’s character then shares that he can actually understand what Blunt is saying, and according to him, it isn’t language in the traditional sense. It’s math.
The tension keeps building as Blunt, now on the move with Wyatt Russell’s character, calls Colman Domingo for help. She also reaches out to Daniel, played by O’Connor, warning him that the government knows where he is and they’re coming to kill him. These two characters don’t know each other, but they share a connection.
Firth’s character doubles down on his mission, saying he needs to hunt them down because people won’t understand the information that O’Conner’s character is trying to share with the world.
Then the footage takes a turn into something even more unsettling. Domingo’s character tells Blunt and O’Connor that it’s always been the two of them, followed by a flashback showing them as children being experimented on by aliens.
The final beat in the footage features a deer, already seen in the trailer, watching a child lying on an examination table. Then as the camera pans around, it transforms into the classic gray alien form, complete with those massive black eyes.
Even with all of that revealed, the bigger picture is still being kept under wraps. We know the film centers on the confirmation that aliens exist, but the timing, the reasoning, and the consequences are still a mystery. That uncertainty seems to be the whole point.
Spielberg offered a cryptic tease during CinemaCon, saying the film is “a lot more truth than fiction” and that not only will it answer questions and cause viewers to ask a lot of questions, but that it’s “an experience” and “all you need to get from the beginning to the end is a seatbelt.”
Whatever Disclosure Day has in store, it Spielberg is on a mission to deliver a unique alien sci-fi film that is different from anything we’ve seen before.
