Details About Steven Spielberg’s Upcoming Disclosure
Hollywood, CA, July 2025 -- Steven Spielberg's upcoming next film, entitled Disclosure, is a UFO-themed blockbuster reportedly written by David Koepp based on Spielberg's original idea. The film is said to be a "two-hander," with a strong focus on its UFO storyline, and will feature a star-studded cast, including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell, and Eve Hewson. The film is scheduled for a theatrical release on June 12, 2026.
According to an article in the June 26 online edition of Variety: “During a recent event at Universal Studios honoring the debut of the new ‘Steven Spielberg Theater’ - named after the legendary director - Spielberg unveiled some new footage from his upcoming movie, which has been shrouded in mystery except for its principal cast. The shown- footage didn’t fully confirm that UFOs or an alien theme would be involved, but there were plenty of menacing figures in unmarked black cars seen chasing Emily Blunt (who appeared in several scenes as an everywoman in a rural area.)
In one sequence with Josh O’Connor, Blunt’s busted sedan collides with a speeding train. She and O’Connor attempt an escape through the broken windshield as the vehicle gets chewed alive between screeching metal and the tracks. Hewson and Domingo’s characters also weren’t clearly defined in the shown-footage, though they’re on the business end of a cat-and-mouse game that explodes through farmhouses and terrorizes pedestrians.
And, if we had to put money on it, Colin Firth is our bad guy. The Academy Award winner looks sinister and well-suited as a leader in some kind of underground workspace - one that resembles a NASA control room and the like.”
Here are some additional details about what is known about Disclosure at this time:
STORY AND THEME:
The film is a UFO-themed blockbuster, with Spielberg returning to his sci-fi roots, potentially evoking the tone of Close Encounters and E.T. It is rumored to explore themes of wonder, awe, and potentially grief and guilt related to encounters with the unknown.
CAST:
The cast includes a mix of established and rising stars, with Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell, and Eve Hewson.
PRODUCTION:
Filming has taken place in New Jersey and parts of New York, with strict Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in place.
SPIELBERG’S VISION:
The film is based on an original idea by Spielberg and is written by David Koepp, who has collaborated with Spielberg on previous films. Koepp stated that production on the film had wrapped in late May and that Spielberg had written the initial story treatment before collaborating with him.
SECRECY:
The production was shrouded in unusual secrecy, with limited information released to the public.
Principal photography began on February 26, 2025, in New Jersey, Atlanta, New York City, and Huntington, under the title Non-View, and wrapped in late May. A casting call went out for Long Island–based background actors to play "wrestling fans" for a scene to shot on March 4, 2025. Subsequent casting calls in March of 2025 sought background talent in the Hudson Valley area of New York and the Middlesex County area of New Jersey; the Middlesex County casting call exclusively requested participants who could drive their own vehicles in the film, while the Hudson Valley casting call also requested actors to play diner patrons and hotel guests. Additional casting calls sought actors to play North Korean soldiers.
Filming was also conducted in March 2025 on the Cape May Seashore Lines railroad in Southern New Jersey. In early April, filming took place in the McGinley Square neighborhood of Jersey City.
According to journalist Jonathan Wolfe from Medium.com, “As of early 2025, Spielberg’s deep into production on a new UFO film based on his own original concept, written by longtime collaborator David Koepp. The project stars Emily Blunt and is currently filming across the East Coast of the U.S., with a release date set for June 2026. Details remain closely guarded, but one thing is clear: this isn’t a reboot or a legacy sequel. It’s Spielberg revisiting the subject not with nostalgia, but urgency — offering something new at a time when the cultural conversation around extraterrestrial contact has never felt stranger or more fractured.”
“What does Spielberg see now that the rest of us are missing? And what whispers reach him that we’ve trained ourselves to ignore? Well for one thing, Spielberg is no longer the wide-eyed dreamer who made Close Encounters or E.T.. That sentimental filmmaker still lives inside him, but it’s now tempered by the wisdom of someone who has spent decades telling more difficult truths. This is the man who gave us Schindler’s List, Munich, The Post, and Bridge of Spies — films grounded in history, conflict, and moral complexity. He has long since proven that he is more than a blockbuster magician. If he is returning to the idea of contact now, it’s not to chase wonder blindly — it’s to ask what it means in an age defined by doubt, surveillance, and the slow erosion of meaning.”
“What does connection look like when told not by the young dreamer, but by the seasoned storyteller who still carries that wonder in his heart, now steadied by time and hard truths? We’ve come a long way since Roswell and Area 51. What once lived in pulp magazines and sci-fi conventions now appears in government reports and infrared military footage. The film Contact offered scientific yearning wrapped in emotional truth. It peeled back layers of bureaucracy, paranoia, and protocol to reveal something more delicate beneath — a story ultimately about faith, not just in the spiritual sense, but in the pursuit of meaning itself. Written by Carl Sagan and directed by Robert Zemeckis, it reminded us that science fiction doesn’t need spectacle to resonate—it only needs a question worth asking.”
“If Spielberg’s upcoming project is truly about contact, then perhaps he is listening too; not for spectacle, but for meaning. Maybe this time, he’s not just revisiting the subject, but reframing the entire conversation.”
COMPILED BY:
Dan Harary
