LAS VEGAS – Director Steven Spielberg confirmed that aliens are the subject of his upcoming film "Disclosure Day" and debuted new footage during the Universal Studios presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 15.
"I’ve been curious ever since I was a little kid about what’s happening in the night sky," he told the audience, saying that the possibility of extraterrestrial life sparks his creativity.
Spielberg's return to the summer blockbuster appears to follow Josh O'Connor's character, Daniel Kelner, fighting to reveal the existence of extra-terrestrial life along with Emily Blunt and Colman Domingo. Connor and Blunt appear to play characters that are possessed by aliens. Colin Firth appears to lead a shadowy government entity tasked with keeping the existence of aliens secret.
The "Jaws" filmmaker said the film was "way closer to truth than to fiction."
He pointed to a 2017 New York Times report on the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program for the return to the subject he's explored in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" saying that it made him curious again.
