(courtesy IMP Awards)
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Universal Pictures is proud to release a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg. If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to 7 billion people. We are coming close to… Disclosure Day. Disclosure Day, formerly known as The Dish during secret production, is directed by the one-and-only filmmaker Steven Spielberg, director of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones movies, E.T., Empire of the Sun, Hook, the Jurassic Park movies, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, A.I., Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Munich, War Horse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, The BFG, Ready Player One, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans previously. The screenplay is written by David Koepp; from a story by Spielberg. Produced by Kristie Macosko Krieger and Spielberg for Amblin Entertainment. (courtesy First Showing)
Much as I love them, I always find most aliens-are-among-us stories a little bit of a letdown because they fail to sufficiently deliver on the intriguing premise and don’t inspired the necessary awe and wonder, and may be even a little healthy fear.
But a film from the great master Spielberg himself? Ah, that is an entirely different proposition.
Such is his gift for emotionally rich and imaginatively verdant storytelling, that I have every confidence Disclosure Day will deliver and then some.
Initial reports seem to indicate some sort of Pluribus-like alien hive mind dynamic at work which I wouldn’t have liked as, unlike a great many others, I found the whole idea of losing your individuality too horrifically chilling to go beyond episode three, but Disclosure Day looks wholly different and very much in keeping with Spielberg’s approach to rich, involving storytelling.
Disclosure Day opens in Australia on 11 June and in U.S. on 12 June.