On our latest VFXShow, Matt Wallin, Jason Diamond and Mike Seymour sit down to discuss Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, a science fiction thriller that mixes global paranoia, intimate human connection and mostly invisible visual effects in the tradition of Spielberg’s most enduring ‘aliens-are-amongst-us’ work.
Directed and produced by Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo. The film begins as a conspiracy thriller, with stolen extraterrestrial technology, a secret government-adjacent corporation and evidence of alien contact reaching back to Roswell. But, as the story unfolds, it becomes something more character-driven and recognisably Spielbergian: a film about communication, memory, fear and the possibility of contact.
In the podcast, we discuss how the film stages the alien presence less as a single reveal and more as a progressive pattern of encounters, abilities and memories. The extraterrestrials are represented not only through technology or traditional spacecraft imagery but also through animals, psychic connections, suppressed childhood memories, and the gradual emergence of a shared alien language.
This week, Live from Kansas City KCXE are:
News Anchor: Matt Wallin @mattwallin www.mattwallin.com
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Sports reporter: Jason Diamond @jasondiamond www.thediamondbros.com
Weather Man: Mike Seymour @mikeseymour www.fxguide.com. + @mikeseymour
Special thanks to Jim “In three, two..” Shen for the editing & production of the show.
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