{"id":8104,"date":"2026-04-02T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/disclosure-day-answers-questions-posed-by-close-encounters-says-emily-blunt\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:56:37","slug":"disclosure-day-answers-questions-posed-by-close-encounters-says-emily-blunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/disclosure-day-answers-questions-posed-by-close-encounters-says-emily-blunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Disclosure Day \u2018Answers Questions Posed By Close Encounters\u2019, Says Emily Blunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For decades now, alien enthusiasts have theorised that evidence of extra-terrestrial life has been hidden by authorities, filed away from prying eyes in Area 51 and secret military bases. If the truth is out there, it\u2019s redacted. A similar secrecy applies to Steven Spielberg\u2019s Disclosure Day. This is a blockbuster of the \u2018top-secret\u2019 variety \u2013 a mysterious conspiracy thriller that sees the Hollywood legend return to the science-fiction genre he\u2019s revolutionised many times over. His latest is all about the big questions: do aliens exist? How long have we known for? And should humanity at large know about it?<\/p>\n

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These are notions that Spielberg has explored going right back to 1977\u2019s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind<\/em> \u2013 and nearly 50 years later, he has more to say. \u201cThere are definitely questions posed by Close Encounters<\/em> that are answered in Disclosure Day<\/em>,\u201d star Emily Blunt tells Empire<\/em>. We can reveal that she plays Margaret Fairchild, a journalist who career-pivots into weather presenting; where, as the Disclosure Day<\/em> trailers show, she’s at the centre of a bizarre on-air incident, vocalising in unsettling seemingly-inhuman clicks. \u201cShe\u2019s walked through life with itchy fingertips,\u201d Blunt teases. \u201cShe has this sense that she doesn\u2019t belong where she is right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Margaret is swept into the orbit of Josh O\u2019Connor\u2019s Daniel Kellner \u2013 a cyber-security expert who\u2019s stumbled upon highly-classified knowledge, placing a target firmly on his back. \u201cHe is a complete unexpected hero,\u201d O\u2019Connor says. \u201cHe\u2019s an incredibly thoughtful person, but underneath, there is something about him that is unexplained, that he can\u2019t put his finger on.\u201d Also caught in the crossfire is Eve Hewson\u2019s Jane Blakenship, Daniel\u2019s girlfriend, facing her own fallout from his quest for the truth.<\/p>\n

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Hot on Margaret and Daniel\u2019s tail is Colin Firth\u2019s antagonist, Noah Scanlon \u2013 leader of Wardex, contracted by the government to keep the biggest secret in the cosmos, well, secret<\/em>. As sinister as Scanlon is, he\u2019s a man with a job to do, with major consequences if he fails. \u201cThere are very few people that have that responsibility to maintain what the world can cope with and what it can\u2019t,\u201d says Firth. \u201cThen the question becomes, who gets to decide that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also fresh out of Wardex \u2013 with a different agenda \u2013 is Colman Domingo\u2019s Hugo Wakefield, an advocate for disclosure. And, possibly, a stand-in for Steven Spielberg himself. \u201cWe\u2019ve never discussed it, but I feel like Hugo is a surrogate for Steven,\u201d Domingo muses. \u201cI feel like Steven\u2019s optimism, his trust, his belief in the moon and the stars and all that is beyond are embedded in my character.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For now, everything else Disclosure Day<\/em> is locked away. Maybe in a wooden crate, somewhere at the back of a giant warehouse, surrounded by endless other wooden crates. But this summer, the truth will be revealed.<\/p>\n

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The new issue of Empire features a major new Steven Spielberg interview, on his lifelong sci-fi obsession, his legendary contributions to the genre, and how it all culminates in his new original feature, Disclosure Day<\/em>. Plus, we sit down with the Disclosure Day<\/em> cast \u2013 Emily Blunt, Josh O\u2019Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson \u2013 and screenwriter David Koepp to get the first word on the summer\u2019s most top-secret blockbuster. Find the Steven Spielberg issue on newsstands from Thursday April 9. Pre-order a copy online here. Disclosure Day<\/em> comes to cinemas from June 12.<\/p>\n

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