Is Disclosure Day Secretly a Close Encounters Sequel?

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The following post contains some SPOILERS for Disclosure Day, although not much more than what was shown in the movie’s trailer. It also contains spoilers for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That movie turns 50 years old in 2027.

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Steven Spielberg has directed dozens of movies over hislegendary Hollywood career. Heonly wrote five of those films — and two of them are his1977sci-fi blockbusterClose Encounters of the Third Kind and his 2026 sci-fi blockbusterDisclosure Day.Given that fact, and the fact that both movies share extremely similar storylines and themes about the discovery of alien life,there’s sure to be ainstinct by some longtime Spielberg fans to compare the two movies.

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It’s an understandable urge. The two movies, made nearly 50 years apart, reflect two very different approaches to essentially the same subject. The tones are distinct —Close Encountersbegins as a domestic drama, and then becomes something of a road trip adventure, whileDisclosure Day is a paranoid thriller — but their storylines are broadly comparable. Ineach movie, two ordinary people accidentallystumble upon extraterrestrials, prompting a dangerous journey to discover the full truth about their existence.

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READ MORE: ScreenCrush’s Full Review of Steven Spielberg’sDisclosure Day

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As soon as it was announced that Spielberg was making another alien movie,and that he was helping write it (David Koepp turned Spielberg’s original story into the final screenplay), people began to speculate whether the two films might be connected in some closer way than their shared author and concept. In especially nerdy corners of the internet, dorks openly wondered: Is it possible thatDisclosure Day is a secret sequel toClose Encounters?

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The surface answer is no. None of the events ofClose Encounters are explicitly referenced inDisclosure Day, and none of its characters appear in the new film either. But c’mon. This is 2026. This is the internet. This is social media and Reddit. You think there won’t be fan theories about it? I would bet my Japanese laserdisc ofRaiders of the Lost Arkthat there will be. It’s just a matter of what shape they might take.

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Here, in my opinion, are the two most likely theories.

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The Two Films Exist in the Same Fictional Universe

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WhileDisclosure Daydoesn’t feature the shocking return of Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary fromClose Encounters (“Hey everyone! Did you miss the worst movie dad of the 1970s? Well, he’s back!”), there’s nothing inDisclosure Daythat precludes it taking place decades after the events ofClose Encountersin the same universe. While it’s true thatDisclosure Day’s alien mythology focuses oninfamous real-world UFO conspiracies like the supposed crashin Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, the fact that the new movieexplicitly mentions decades of governmental and private corporation cover-ups surrounding alien life actually increases the possibility thatDisclosure Day andClose Encounterscould share a cinematic universe.

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After all,Close Encounters hinges on one such cover-up. When a French scientist (Francois Truffaut) and his team of UFO experts realize that theremay be a UFO landing at Wyoming’s Devils Tower they plant a false story that a train crashcaused the release of toxic nerve gas,which allows the U.S. government to order a mandatory evacuation of the surrounding area. (It’s always a train crash in a Spielberg movie, huh?)

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This sounds a lot like the sort of duplicitous shenanigans engineered by the Wardex Corporation inDisclosure Day.This private government contractor, led by Colin Firth’s Noah Scanlon, will go toanylength to preserve the secrecy around the possible alien landings on Earth. Faking a train wreck and mass evictions are just another Tuesday to these guys.

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Josh O’Connor’s Character Is the Grown-Up Version of Barry Guiler FromClose Encounters

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Someone on Reddit is going to propose this one. (Maybe they already have.) I imagine the theory will go something like this:

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Disclosure Dayhero Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) is a cybersecurity expert who winds up stealing information on aliens from his employers at Wardex.Spielberg slowly reveals that Daniel’sinterest in this data is far more personal than it originally appears (even to Daniel). Although he’s largelysuppressed the memory, Daniel (as well as Emily Blunt’s Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City meteorologist) were abducted by alienswhen they were children. Thesebeings experimented onthe kids’ minds usingotherworldly devices. Afterwards, Daniel gained a superhuman ability to perceive mathematics(and thus the ability to understand the aliens’ incomprehensible language).

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Daniel’s backstory isn’t all that far off from the events inClose Encounters surrounding little Barry Guiler (Cary Guffey), a three-year-old boy taken from his home in Indiana by aliens right around the same time that Roy has his close encounter. It’s never revealed why the aliens want Barry, nor do we learn what the aliens do to or withhim while they have him. They eventually return him to his mother (Melinda Dillon), seemingly no worse for wear, inClose Encounters’famous final scene.

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Is it possible then that Daniel Kellner is a grown-up BarryGuiler under a different name? It’s not that far of a stretch to think Barry and his mom were forced to relocate and change their names (by the Wardex Corporation?)in exchange for their silence about what they witnessed at Devils Tower. That seems totally plausible. And Daniel’s childhoodabduction (which hesays he can’t remember) could easily resemble the one Barry has onscreen inClose Encounters.

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The main reason why this fan theorydoesn’thold up to scrutiny is the timeline.Close Encounterstakes place in 1977. (There’s even a title card in the opening scene that dates the film to that year.) If Barry was born in 1974, he’d be 51 in 2026. And Josh O’Connor sure ain’t 51 years old. (He just turned 36.)Daniel and Margaret say their abductiontook place in the mid-1990s. That would seem to rule out the Daniel is Barry theory.

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Ah, but there isstill a way you can work aroundthat fact. Barry isn’t the only person that walks off thealien mothership at the end ofClose Encounters.As you can see in the clip above, he’s joined by numerous other abductees, including members of the U.S. armed forces who vanished during World War II. Men taken in the 1940sreturn in 1977looking like they just stepped out of a John Ford war film; they havenot aged a day. (The aliens have apparently mastered Botox technology in addition to interstellar travel.)

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So it’s possible that whatever happened to Barry/Daniel as a child altered his aging too. Maybe he ages slower than other people. Maybe he was abducted asecond time in the 1990s and that’s when he met Margaret. Basically once you take the alien’s immortality tech into account, just about anything is possible in terms of timelines.

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Is it a stretch? Absolutely. But when are online fan theories not a stretch? If they weren’t a stretch, they wouldn’t be fan theories. They would be proven pieces of movie text.

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Riding high after the back-to-back blockbusters Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg decided to prove he could do comedy, too. What 1941 presupposes is… maybe he couldn’t? A bloated, antic mess, the film spoofs the panic that engulfed Southern California in the weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1941.

The cast is stacked with at least a dozen great actors— Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Warren Oates, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Robert Stack, Slim Pickens, Treat Williams, even Toshiro Mifune as a Japanese sub commander —but there isn’t a single interesting character among them. The slapstick humor takes on increasingly manic qualities as the film progresses and Spielberg desperately reaches for laughs. A director’s cut adds another 30+ minutes to the film, but this thing needs to run a lot shorter, not longer. If nothing else, 1941 serves as a useful reminder that even the best artists are capable of producing a disaster under the right conditions.

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