Disclosure Day with Steven Spielberg & David Koepp
6/16/202655 min
Have aliens already secretly visited us? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Steven Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp to discuss their new film Disclosure Day, alien contact, and why Spielberg believes there’s more out there than meets the eye.
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Speaker 2· Soundbite0:30
It belongs to seven billion people.
Speaker 10:34
What is it?
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:36
You wouldn't believe me if I told you, so I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 10:40
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:45
Full disclosure to the whole world, all at once.
Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:51
This is StarTalk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and today we've got something special brewing. Oh, yeah. We're gonna talk about Disclosure Day, not just in the abstract, but I've got with me here the one, the only, Steven Spielberg. It's his story and he directed it. But we also have the writer, David Koepp, who not only wrote Disclosure Day, but wrote many other science fiction