Steven Spielberg has been probing the mystery of extraterrestrial life in his films for nearly 50 years, dating back to 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and continuing through 1982’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and 2005’s War of the Worlds.
His latest exploration of these notions takes shape in Disclosure Day.
“There are definitely questions posed by Close Encounters that are answered in Disclosure Day,” star Emily Blunt tells Empire.
“The question has always remained for me: are we alone on our own planet?” comments Spielberg. “I cannot imagine that we are alone out there. That question has not only haunted me, but it has inspired me. But, I think, it has now resolved itself to my satisfaction in Disclosure Day.”
The filmmaker adds, “If I could know, I would want to know. Who would not want to know?”
Empire debuted two new images from the film, pictured below, and divulged new details about the main characters.
Blunt stars as Margaret Fairchild, a journalist-turned-weather presenter at the center of a bizarre on-air incident, as seen in the trailer.
Josh O’Connor plays Daniel Kellner, a cyber-security expert with a target on his back after stumbling upon highly-classified knowledge, with Eve Hewson as his girlfriend, Jane Blakenship, who faces her own fallout from Daniel’s quest for the truth.
Colin Firth plays antagonist Noah Scanlon, leader of Wardex, contracted by the government to maintain the biggest secret in the cosmos, with major consequences if he fails. Colman Domingo plays Hugo Wakefield, an advocate for disclosure fresh out of Wardex.
Written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Spider-Man), Disclosure Day invades theaters June 12 via Universal.
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