Disclosure Day | Steven Spielberg (June 12, 2026)

[publiusr]

This is chamber music compared to CE3K’s opera…small…personal.

The possession angle there to irritate fundies. It actually reminded me more of The Grudge.

I bet you won’t see one spaceship

There is another way to do that…ET meets Updike’s “Rabbit at Rest” or Mailer’s “Harlot’s Ghost.”

Voyager’s Ed Stone of JPL (or a character based on him) would be in charge of bringing back the 1972 Daylight Fireball bolide. Titan III MOL launch was actually a one way recovery…with the shuttle orbiter sized to accommodate what turns out to be a Bracewell probe. (Eschatian style).

The researcher gets older, sees ups and downs…and all his research trashed.

He is the only person left alive who knows of this other civilization, apart from some crew-cut handlers.

The Inner Light….that Failed.

You have space scenes, and the story is harder than most SF…but it is the human story that is still central.

Post Schindler Spielberg focuses on that now.

 

[Gepard]

Though I admit part of my backbrain would’ve gotten a silly kick out of Sky Harbor Vs The Martians.

It looks like an attempt at first contact via puppeteering lifeforms. Assuming it’s not permanent, that’s certainly a more pleasant approach than kidnapping Melinda Dillon’s kid.

Not the revelation that certain animal species humans have lived alongside have always been aliens? (Particularly those we domesticated and made pets out of rather than food, though deer wouldn't qualify)

I certainly hope not, since that would be biologically incredibly silly — we can trace how related they are to us, evolutionarily. Unless they go with the panspermia or Prometheus approach and have us all really be alien-descended, and I’d be really disappointed if we were doing that again. (I liked it in Quatermass and the Pit because it was decades ago and also I was a child when I saw it.)

Also, it's just silly. And if they wanted to communicate wit us with animals, they should have not bothered with deer and birds and instead gone with what there are a bazillion videos on Youtube of: cats and dogs.

IIRC, part of abduction lore is people "remembering" the aliens as out-of-place wildlife (the movie "The Fourth Kind" used owls), so it's possible the animals in the trailers aren't what they appear to be.

 

[publiusr]

Aliens would not even need to go that far.

A probe designed to look like a meteorite could split open—maybe release a microdrone to “drive” other insects.

It “bites” you…goes back to a lab on a chip inside the space rock…deposits the drop of blood…chirps some RF at the passing bus….and dissolves.

No LSD trips, no discotheque lights.

I remember reading about small optics that looked like rock veins a decade ago.

 

[tharpdevenport]

IIRC, part of abduction lore is people "remembering" the aliens as out-of-place wildlife (the movie "The Fourth Kind" used owls), so it's possible the animals in the trailers aren't what they appear to be.

For me, that just makes it worse.

 

[Owain Taggart]

One possibility is that It could also be something as simple as a bacteria or microbe, ie an extraterrestrial micorganism, coming from somewhere via asteroid that starts affecting first wildlife, then people. Kind of the reverse scenario from War of the Worlds where it's the invaders' demise via terrestrial bacteria. Essentially something that our ecosystem is not familiar with to fight it off.

 

[publiusr]

I halfway think this may just be Spielberg’s “The Happening” with those microbes being nano-Gorts again…similar to to the Andromeda Strain miniseries or Spielberg’s own earlier “Taken.”

9/11 caused him to do War of the Worlds in a more personal way—and the influence of Schindler’s List can be seen in the unique way that Martian weapon strikes have upon the human frame.

My thinking is that this movie is a response to Elon Musk’s reach spaceward…with this film more about turning inward.

“Re-enter humanity” to steal a quote from a protest sign.

That’s my guess.

I don’t think Steven wants to do “big” movies anymore.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

New teaser:

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[Starkers]

I'm very interested to see this, but at the moment It feels a little like a hodge-podge of other things. (Including Signs, and even Pluribus) Throwing crop circles in their feels very old hat by 2026.

We're so in the dark about what it's actually about that I'm sure it'll not remotely be the film it might look like it is.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I'm very interested to see this, but at the moment It feels a little like a hodge-podge of other things. (Including Signs, and even Pluribus) Throwing crop circles in their feels very old hat by 2026.

We're so in the dark about what it's actually about that I'm sure it'll not remotely be the film it might look like it is.

Maybe Spielberg lost his mind and this is the result /s

 

[Owain Taggart]

You know, I get the feeling that this may not even have been created by Spielberg. I have a feeling given the screenplay and who's writing it, that Koepp might have more to do with the actual project than Spielberg himself. Spielberg might have taken it on as a favour to a friend, and the media gets to see them reunite. Just a hunch.

 

[JD]

The new trailer has a story by Steven Spielberg credit, so apparently it was his idea.
The stuff we've seen so far is interesting, but it does feel like kind of random collection of different weird things, and I'm curious how exactly it all comes together.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Even when the film was first announced, it was described as a story based on an original idea from Spielberg.

 

[Owain Taggart]

The reason I wondered about that is because it has the feel of concepts that Koepp created for his novel and they feel way too similar to be coincidental, especially when he's the screenwriter of this movie. It feels like it has his DNA all over it.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Steven's ears must've been burning because here's a new video with him talking about the ideas he wanted to explore in this film:

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[Candleicious Ghost]

Steven's ears must've been burning because here's a new video with him talking about the ideas he wanted to explore in this film:

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Yeah but he's not saying much that we do not already know about the movie. I'm still not sure this will be worth it because the first big trailer looked so disjointed and too many things going on

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Disjointed? We barely see anything because both of them were one-minute teasers (with a lot of overlap).

As for what Spielberg said, he's reaffirming the ideas that those teasers are suggesting and why he wants to ask those questions.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

As for what Spielberg said, he's reaffirming the ideas that those teasers are suggesting and why he wants to ask those questions.

Yeah he is.

I just felt like there were too many things going on at the same time in the first big trailer, that's just how I felt that's all

 

[Owain Taggart]

The ideas may end up being better represented in the movie. It's hard to get a feeling with teasers, especially for high concept ideas.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

The ideas may end up being better represented in the movie. It's hard to get a feeling with teasers, especially for high concept ideas.

I would definitely agree with that.

I'm not totally against seeing it just I feel a bit iffy at the current moment. One thing I do get is that Spielberg might well be a believer that we are indeed not alone in the universe.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah but he's not saying much that we do not already know about the movie.

Probably because the movie isn't out yet and he doesn't want to give anything away four months before its release.