Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Want to Say Too Much About Disclosure Day
The director and star Colman Domingo talk about the experience of making the blockbuster movie and their hopes that audiences will go along for the ride whether they believe in aliens or not.
When it comes to his new, UFO-centric movie Disclosure Day, filmmaker Steven Spielberg doesn’t necessarily want audiences to go in having already decided if they believe in aliens or not — he just wants them to give themselves over to the ride.
“The thing about Disclosure Day is it’s really an experience. It’s an experience to turn yourselves over to us and allow us to present you with, not just the facts as we see them, but also with a great deal of momentum, velocity, speed, entertainment,” he says, sitting beside star Colman Domingo during Fandango’s Big Ticket interview. “The movie doesn’t stop until it stops. It comes out of the gate really fast, and it just keeps moving. And there [are] a lot of revelations, and there’s a lot of emotion — you’re really going to feel something when you get into the story.”
For that reason, Spielberg adds that he doesn’t like revealing too much about Disclosure Day, which explains why little information beyond what’s seen in the mysterious, tense trailers and the cast list (which includes Domingo, Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, and Eve Hewson) is out there. “I really do believe this is an experience movie as opposed to a film that I could just say, ‘Here’s how it starts, this is what happens in the middle, here’s what comes out at the end,’” he continues. “It’s something where every moment has something that’s going to lift you a little further, a little higher in your belief structure. And, if you’re not really inclined to believe any of this, at least it’s going to take you to the end of this journey in a way that’s going to pop your eyes out and make your heart beat real fast.”
There’s arguably no other filmmaker who can make that happen, especially when it comes to alien movies, like Spielberg, who has been experimenting in the genre since 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Clearly, there’s something about the theme that keeps inspiring him and, in turn, audiences.
“When I was making [Close Encounters], I did a lot of research, and I really got to the edge of really believing that something was happening in our skies that we weren’t being told about,” Spielberg says. “I wrote it from my heart — it was sort of a wish-fulfillment story, hoping that maybe a little bit of what I’m talking about in this picture might be true, but [I] wasn’t sure back then. Then, 50 years goes by, and I made Disclosure Day because I really believe that the things that I was only hoping were true back then are things that are actually happening now, today.”
Watch the full interview above. Disclosure Day comes out in theatres on June 12. Get your tickets here.
