Stephen Spielberg’s new film “Disclosure Day” explores the what-ifs from his 1977 meet-the-aliens thriller “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” news outlets report.
“Disclosure Day,” which opens Friday, imagines that aliens never left after the events of “Close Encounters” and that their presence has been systematically denied and covered up for 80 years. Mr. Spielberg described the new movie as a “bookend” to the earlier film.
The movie centers on what would happen if someone with a vast archive of visual evidence of alien activity decided to release it to the world — and what would transpire to stop them.
Mr. Spielberg discussed the film and the origins of his fascination with space in an interview with CBS News. He said he was about 5 or 6 when his father woke him one night and drove him to see the Perseids meteor shower, which sparked his “love affair with the sky.”
His new film delves into faith, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said.
“Is God our God only on this planet? Or is God a god for every system where there’s civilization, intelligent life, and even developing life?” Mr. Spielberg said, adding that he believes aliens have visited Earth.
“Based on the circumstantial evidence of everything that I’ve gathered throughout my whole life, everybody I’ve listened to and every documentary I’ve ever watched and all the testimonies in Congress that I’ve heard, I absolutely think that they have been here, and they are here,” he said.
“Disclosure Day” stars Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Colman Domingo.
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