Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Disclosure Day

 
See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/spielberg-wraps.html.
There have been some important updates about Steven Spielberg's new film. Last Friday a billboard appeared on the prime commercial display in Times Square, New York City; and also at a similar place in Los Angeles, illustrated below. It simply said: All will be disclosed. Spielberg. 6-12-16. This refers to the 12th of June, not the 6th of December; it's an American date format. It is exactly six months in the future, presumably the release date of the movie. The design is cryptic, showing the white outline of a bird with a human eye inside it, upside down for some reason. Surrounding it is a circle of white lines. Then the rumour emerged that the first teaser trailer was about to begin distribution on the reels of the new film Avatar- Fire and Ash. I was tempted to buy a ticket to the first showing on Friday, even though I'm not a big Avatar fan and so wasn't keen to see the feature; I wanted it just so I could see the trailer. Star Wars fans did the same thing before the 1990's prequel launch, some turning up at the cinema wearing costumes. However, the trailer has dropped three days early online. It finally reveals the film's title: Disclosure Day; a very good one I think that when combined with what we've been told about its themes means it will appeal to the UFO community. The teaser is two minutes and six seconds long and opens with some clips from a few of the scenes showing the inside of a house, a small handheld crucifix and a herd of deer outside a window that is slightly reminiscent of Leave The World Behind, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/12/leave-world-behind-review.html. There is some intriguing dialogue: "If you found out we weren't alone; if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?" The second scene is in a TV news studio. The newsreader, played by Emily Blunt, is delivering a bulletin when she suddenly starts stuttering and her voice changes tone completely; and she starts making unintelligible noises. The gallery crew and the people watching her on TV all look alarmed. The following scene has the actor Josh O'Connor saying: "People have a right to know the truth; it belongs to seven billion people." There is then a scene in some kind of laboratory or control centre full of complex computer monitors. O'Connor's character then says: "Full Disclosure to the whole world, all at once." We then see a crop circle being made live on camera, rather like the 1996 John Weyleigh footage, see: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XVl8A4Wn-MA. Another character, played by Colman Domingo, then says: "People keep wondering, encountering the unknown. They are starved for the truth!" Interspersed are clips of armed policemen carrying out a raid and chasing somebody on foot and in black cars. There are images inserted throughout the trailer showing a man being experimented on; I can't identify the actor. Emily Blunt then says: "Do you think there could be others?" and a nun replies with an adaptation of a famous quote by Carl Sagan on God's creation of the cosmos: "Why would He make such a vast universe yet save it only for us?" This dialogue is mixed with clips of animals behaving strangely, including a bird like the one in the posters. More posters have been released since with the characters' whole faces partly covered by the translucent bird template. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6NRgoXCM.

Along with David Koepp, as has already been revealed, Steven Spielberg has reassembled other members of his familiar team. The original score is composed by John Williams making this his thirtieth collaboration with Spielberg beginning in 1974 with The Sugarland Express. All the classic UFO movie riffs we associate with Spielberg, Close Encounters, ET etc, are Williams' work. This reunion makes me suspect Disclosure Day will have a fairly typical Spielberg feel to it. To say I am looking forward to watching this new film is an understatement. It's truly painful that we have to wait half a year for it. Be in no doubt at all that I will be reviewing it in the most thorough detail. Roll on June!

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