{"id":59950,"date":"2026-06-11T21:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59950"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:23:59","slug":"why-steven-spielberg-doesnt-consider-disclosure-day-to-be-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59950","title":{"rendered":"Why Steven Spielberg doesn\u2019t consider Disclosure Day to be science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A moment early on in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Disclosure Day<\/em><\/span> will instinctively feel familiar to anyone who grew up with Steven Spielberg films. A TV weather report predicts hail. The camera pans downward, from television set to kitchen table. Plinking sounds begin. Cereal falls into a bowl.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThose were Froot Loops,\u201d Spielberg says, smiling. \u201cMy favourite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spielberg\u2019s latest film, like some of his earliest and most beloved, again concerns what might fall from above. <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Disclosure Day<\/em>, now showing at cinemas, returns Hollywood\u2019s pre-eminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: are we alone?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Coming nearly half a century after <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Disclosure Day<\/em> is a grand bookend for one of the most cosmically minded filmmakers of our time, whose dreams of extraterrestrial life have shaped all of ours. It is a distant answer to the final notes of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Close Encounters<\/em>. But while Spielberg grants his 1977 film was \u201cspeculative\u201d, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Disclosure Day<\/em>, he insists, is the real deal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,\u201d Spielberg says. \u201cIt\u2019s much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steven Spielberg (centre) on the set of Disclosure Day. Photo: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment via AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/10\/7f361219-bbaf-49a9-b762-9f367c428fb2_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Steven Spielberg (centre) on the set of Disclosure Day. Photo: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment via AP\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Steven Spielberg (centre) on the set of Disclosure Day. Photo: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment via AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spielberg, at 79, is trying to revive the alien wonder that has lingered in his mind, from <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">E.T.<\/em> to <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">War of the Worlds<\/em>. <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Disclosure Day<\/em>, his first summer movie in a decade, is already being hailed as one of his best in years. But this time, Spielberg is testing whether he can conjure some of his trademark film magic less with imagination than with conviction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3356608\/why-steven-spielberg-doesnt-consider-disclosure-day-be-science-fiction?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moment early on in Disclosure Day will instinctively feel familiar to anyone who grew up with Steven Spielberg films. 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