Spielberg Wraps

 

The untitled film by Steven Spielberg and David Koepp has completed production. All the scenes are now in the can and now the task begins of editing and perfecting the movie and to make it ready for its arrival on the big screen on June the 12th next year. The illustration above is an official news media photograph taken at a location shoot in White Plains, New York and published with the approval of the producers, Amblin Entertainment. I've never heard of a film having this much publicity before the run-up to its release. Almost as soon as he came up with the idea, Spielberg announced that he and Koepp would be making a new movie with a UFO theme. He announced a release date and a working title "The Dish", later changed to "Disclosure". This was all before a single frame had turned over. A cast list has been published; it includes such stars as Emily Blunt and Colin Firth. I raised this subject with Bryce Zabel at Contact in the Desert, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/need-to-know-live.html, and he didn't think I should read too much into it. Obviously he is the Hollywood expert, but despite that I struggle to think of any other cinematic work in progress I've heard of that has been presented in this way. What's more, I have a twentieth anniversary special edition DVD of Close Encounters of the Third Kind which includes a lot of bonus material. Among it is an interview with the director in which he states: "I couldn't make Close Encounters today.", ie 1997. This is because he had lost his interest in UFO's. Well, obviously something has rekindled his interest; I wonder what that is. Has somebody told Spielberg something they haven't told the rest of us? Ron James made an interesting comment about Spielberg during his talk at Contact, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. He thinks that the director has indeed been assigned a secret agenda and speculates about what that might be. When the film is released the hype leading up to that day will be so intense that there will probably be a multi-screen premiere and at some point in the movie, probably near the end, a decisive piece of UFO footage will be shown accompanied by some kind of fourth wall-breaking announcement that this is in fact real and not just concocted special effects. At that moment the audience will be informed that the government are going to tell the people all about it. If this is the case, Steven Spielberg will go down in history as far more than the very talented and accomplished filmmaker that he already is; he will be a revolutionary figure, the man who did Disclosure with a capital D. Obviously James is merely speculating; he doesn't know any more than I do, but if it were true it would make the other pieces of the puzzle fit. Bryce told me that he would be first in the queue to see the film when it's released. I will be right behind him.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.