Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day Gets a Massive Mural Advertisement... in Downtown Kansas City

Steven Spielberg and Universal Studios would similar you to cognize that Disclosure Day is connected the way, and they're letting you cognize astir it with a massive, buildingside mural ad. But alternatively than mounting it up successful Hollywood, wherever these things usually appear, it's popped up successful an antithetic location: Kansas City, Missouri.

This was brought to my attraction a week agone by u/KCLawgirl implicit connected the Kansas City subreddit, and I strolled downtown to look for it today. It's been painted connected the Mainmark building, astatine 1627 Main Street successful the downtown Crossroads area. You tin get a truly bully presumption of it from Walnut Street nearby, if you basal successful the parkland betwixt 16th and 17th, oregon you tin conscionable thrust southbound down Main St.

A presumption of the Mainmark gathering and the Disclosure Day mural. Photo credit: Rebekah Valentine.

The precense of specified a billboard successful Kansas City mightiness not dependable extraordinary, particularly if you've seen the teaser for Spielberg's upcoming sci-fi thriller, which reveals it is acceptable (at slightest successful part) successful Kansas City. But for Kansas City residents (hi), it is beauteous weird, adjacent a small cool! We astir never get large movie ads similar this here. I won't accidental ne'er ever, due to the fact that it's imaginable determination person been immoderate I missed, but immoderate probe into the recorded past of the Mainmark gathering suggests that this is simply a beauteous uncommon thing. Many of the ads implicit the years person been for compartment telephone services, with occasional interruptions for section sports-politics specified arsenic the propulsion for Kansas City to beryllium a World Cup big metropolis (which it is, this year) and a much caller 1 advocating for the Royals to determination their stadium downtown.

I don't cognize that Disclosure Day is needfully going to beryllium a monolithic deed successful Kansas City specifically, but I cognize that plentifulness of residents volition beryllium watching it similar red-tailed hawks for immoderate circumstantial references to our just city, oregon immoderate slip-ups ala Ted Lasso referring to the airdrome arsenic "KCI" and suggesting it mightiness person nonstop flights to Heathrow (lol). Of course, the Kansas City spot of Ted Lasso Season 3 was filmed locally with much to travel successful Season 4, but it sounds similar Disclosure Day was filmed successful New Jersey. Rats.

Disclosure Day lands successful theaters connected June 12, 2026, and is created and directed by Steven Spielberg, and stars Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), arsenic good arsenic Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple), and Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin). We deliberation it has thing to bash with aliens? The trailer is mysterious and deliberately unclear successful the involvement of gathering suspense. Per the tagline: "if you recovered retired we weren’t alone, if idiosyncratic showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the information belongs to 7 cardinal people.

"We are coming adjacent to... Disclosure Day."

Will aliens descend connected Kansas City? Will they onshore connected the Missouri broadside oregon the Kansas side? Do they similar BBQ? I, and galore of my chap Kansas City nerds, are waiting to find out.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].