Disclosure Day Second Trailer

 

A new trailer has dropped for Disclosure Day two months after the initial teaser, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/12/disclosure-day.html. This new trailer is shorter, one minute only. Despite that it contains a lot more dialogue and information. It repeats a few shots from the earlier trailer, but has mostly new ones. It begins again in a TV studio, but this time a different newsreader is delivering a bulletin about the threat to release "government material long shrouded in secrecy." At the same time you see people doing something with a laptop and a new character played by Eve Hewson says: "Are they... people!?" "No!" replies Josh O'Connor's character. There is an action scene that reminds me very much of another of Steven Spielberg's films, one of his early works, an excellent psychological thriller called Duel, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhehxH25GGA. A car crashes into a moving freight train. Then we hear the first words from Colin Firth's character: "If you do this, there's no undoing it." This is followed by a cryptic shot of Josh O Connor's and Emily Blunt's characters with EEG transducers stuck to their heads, indicating that they're being subjected to some kind of experiment or medical treatment. "There will be no other day like tomorrow." says Colman Domingo's character and then we see an amazing vista of some kind of ET spaceship flying through a cloudy sky. It is either pushing through the clouds or is giving off smoke. It looks like a classic saucer and there's a similar effect in Independence Day. We hear the clicking alien language in the background several times in the trailer. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLv9WFOe6GU. It is easy to interpret the message in the story. Somebody has got hold of some secret information about aliens and plans to tell the world; what's known as "catastrophic Disclosure". The action scenes, together with the police raid in the first trailer, indicate that the government is trying to stop them. Since the last trailer there has been some supposition that Disclosure Day is set in the same universe as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It could be that some of the characters are the same, maybe the children in the earlier film who have grown up. It's easy to forget that Close Encounters does not end with any kind of public revelation. After the aliens land by Devil's Tower they simply take off again with their human passengers and the film just ends. If you were an ordinary person living in that universe at the time all you would find out is that there had been a successful public health operation in Wyoming and that the toxic gas had been cleaned up. Also many people have noticed that the house in the first trailer looks exactly like Jillian and Barry's house, although the former is presumably just scenery because a car crashes right through it. There's a rumour that CE3 is going to be re-released in cinemas as a prelude to the Disclosure Day premier. If so I'll make a weekend of it! I predict that we're all going to be disappointed by Disclosure Day, not because it's going to be a bad movie, but because our hopes for it are so high. We often judge works of art by measuring them against our expectations. This is why the Star Wars prequels and The Matrix sequels had such lukewarm reviews. When I watch Spielberg's new film I will try to do so without those biases so I can simply enjoy it for what it is.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.