Steven Spielberg Returns With DISCLOSURE DAY, a Global Thriller About the Truth We Fear

Steven Spielberg’s DISCLOSURE DAY teases a world forever changed by an undeniable truth.

DISCLOSURE DAY — Steven Spielberg Returns to Global-Scale Suspense

Universal Pictures has officially unveiled the first teaser for DISCLOSURE DAY, a brand-new original event film written from a story by Steven Spielberg and directed by the legendary filmmaker himself. Slated to arrive in theaters on June 12, 2026, the teaser positions the film as a chilling, globe-spanning thriller built around one unnerving question:

If you found out we weren’t alone — if someone proved it to you — would that frighten you?

From that premise alone, Disclosure Day already feels like Spielberg circling back to one of his most enduring thematic obsessions: humanity confronting the unknown, not with lasers and bravado, but with fear, wonder, and existential dread.

The teaser is deliberately restrained, offering suggestion rather than spectacle. Phrases like “the truth belongs to seven billion people” and “we are coming close to Disclosure Day” frame the story as something collective, unavoidable, and world-altering — less about invasion, more about revelation. It’s the kind of cosmic anxiety Spielberg once explored in Close Encounters and War of the Worlds, but filtered through a modern lens shaped by information overload, distrust, and global panic.

The film boasts an impressive ensemble led by Emily Blunt, joined by Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo — a cast that suggests character-driven tension rather than effects-first spectacle. Pair that with a screenplay by David Koepp, reuniting with Spielberg after collaborations like Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and you have a creative reunion responsible for more than $3 billion in box office history.

Produced by Kristie Macosko Krieger and Spielberg under the Amblin banner, Disclosure Day is being positioned as a true “event film” — not franchise IP, not a reboot, but a singular original story from one of cinema’s most influential voices.

Spielberg’s recent work has leaned introspective (The Fabelmans), but Disclosure Day looks poised to blend that emotional maturity with the large-scale tension that defined his most iconic genre films. If the teaser is any indication, this won’t be about monsters crashing through cities — it’ll be about what happens to people when certainty collapses.

We’re watching this one very closely.

DISCLOSURE DAY opens in theaters June 12, 2026.

The countdown has begun.