Hollywood found Jesus – and it's trying to bury him.
Steven Spielberg's new film opens June 12, and the director is already telling the press it will make Christians question whether their faith belongs to them alone.
Here's what he actually said – and why the timing is no accident.
Spielberg Admits the Target Is Your Church
In a CBS News interview promoting Disclosure Day, Spielberg dropped the mask entirely.
"What does this do to the fundamental beliefs that many of us have?" he asked. "Is God our God only on this planet? Or is God a god for every system where there's civilization and intelligent life?"
That's not a filmmaker exploring themes.
That's a 79-year-old Hollywood legend telling Christians their entire theological framework needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
The film follows a cybersecurity whistleblower – played by Josh O'Connor – who possesses 80 years of suppressed government evidence on alien contact.
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A corporate executive played by Colin Firth wants it buried.
A disclosure movement leader played by Colman Domingo wants it released.
Emily Blunt plays a meteorologist whose life has been "upended" by an encounter she can't explain.
Spielberg describes the film as taking "the position of the church" – meaning organized religion is framed as the obstacle standing between humanity and the truth.
Screenplay writer David Koepp made the agenda even plainer in an interview with MovieMaker Magazine.
"My personal belief is the same as my personal belief in God," Koepp said, comparing faith in aliens directly to faith in the Almighty. "The only reasonable position is agnostic."
He was raised Catholic and walked away.
Now he's making movies designed to walk you away too.
Spielberg Is Hijacking Trump's Transparency Win
Spielberg is parasitically attaching a Hollywood faith-destruction project to a Trump transparency initiative – and the timing is no accident.
Trump ordered the declassification of government UAP files in February 2026.
On May 8, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters – PURSUE – and released the first batch of military photographs, pilot reports, and historical documents stretching back to 1944.
FBI Director Kash Patel called it "a landmark release."
The files don't confirm alien life.
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They confirm unresolved encounters the government kept secret for decades.
That's the actual story – a Trump transparency initiative delivering what the deep state refused to release for 80 years.
Spielberg's film releases one month after Trump's PURSUE launch.
Hollywood saw the cultural moment coming and positioned itself to own the narrative before the facts are fully known.
Christian researcher and filmmaker L.A. Marzulli has been warning audiences about exactly this playbook.
"This is the coming great deception," Marzulli said. "This changes everything."
He argues the film's religious symbolism – cardinals and Christian iconography woven throughout the trailer – isn't accidental storytelling.
"Cling to Jesus," Marzulli told Christians. "Understand that what was foretold is unfolding."
The Man Who Gave You E.T. Is Now Coming for Your Bible
This is the same man who made you cry when Elliott's bike crossed the moon.
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The same man who made you feel wonder instead of fear when the mothership descended in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 – a film that used alien contact as a quasi-religious experience, replicating the awe of faith while quietly replacing its object.
He called Disclosure Day the bookend to Close Encounters.
Half a century of earning your trust – and now he's cashing it in.
Hollywood has been running this play since 1951, when The Day the Earth Stood Still depicted a visitor from the heavens who arrives with a message of peace, is killed by authorities, and is resurrected before departing and promising to return.
They're harder to miss in 2026 when the director is openly asking whether your God is real.
Spielberg gets to use Trump's credibility to make his movie feel plausible, while using that plausibility to suggest your grandmother's prayers were misdirected.
That's the move.
And 70 million American Christians need to see it for what it is before June 12.
Sources:
- Simon Kent, "Watch: Steven Spielberg Says 'Disclosure Day' Will Leave Christians Questioning Their Faith in God," Breitbart, June 8, 2026.
- "Disclosure Day Director Steven Spielberg on Alien Visitations," CBS News, June 7, 2026.
- Greg Gilman, "Disclosure Day Writer Says 'Religion Is an Important Part' of New Spielberg Tale," MovieMaker, May 2026.
- James Lasher, "More Truth Than Fiction: Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' Film Sparks End Times Warning," Charisma Magazine, April 23, 2026.
- Greg Wehner, "Trump Directs Release of Government Alien and UFO Files," Fox News, February 19, 2026.
- "Trump Admin Releases Highly Anticipated Files Documenting UFOs, Extraterrestrial Life," Fox News, May 8, 2026.