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With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.
War of the Worlds was an obvious and devastating response to the carnage of 9/11, updating the classic novel to a modern-day depiction of a society coming undone in the face of an apocalyptic alien invasion.
BBC’s 2019 The War of the Worlds stars Eleanor Tomlinson as Amy, whose perspective gives H.G. Wells’ alien invasion story a bold new twist.
The site compares undocumented immigrants to extraterrestrials, refers to people as "it," and says "they do not belong here."
Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou
