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.