The answers are on the market, and NewsNation goals to search out them.
The proper-of-center (they’d say “perfectly center”) media network is airing a special on Saturday titled Reality Check: Road to Disclosure, hosted by Ross Coulthart from the Australian premiere of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. The hour-long special borrows Coulthart’s Reality Check podcast title; NewsNation has already borrowed its premise for companion series Unreported With Meagan Medick. Coulthart is an enormous name within the disclosure movement, a social and political campaign pushing for the declassification and release of secret files regarding UFOs, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), and non-human intelligence — nevertheless, it’s one other NewsNation correspondent, Jessica Kartajilla, who serves because the bridge here between the Hollywood blockbuster and cable news channel.
Kartajilla played a TV anchor (the highly coveted “Anchor 2” role) within the film, which stars Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Wyatt Russell. (None of them play “Anchor 1,” when you were wondering — that was ABC News freelance anchor Lionel Moise.) As a part of the one-hour special, Kartajilla, who has also appeared in House of Cards and HBO’s Servant, will “discuss her experience” filming the movie and “share a fun story about Spielberg,” NewsNation says.
Here’s a preview:
“At a time when UAPs are a part of the national conversation, being a part of Disclosure Day is surreal,” Kartajilla told The Hollywood Reporter. “Having the chance to work with Spielberg, was (pun intended), totally out of this world.”
Fun.
“I believe Steven Spielberg is a masterful storyteller. I loved the way in which it brought in psionics,” Coulthart told THR. “It brought within the risks of catastrophic disclosure…It’s a good looking film. It’s profoundly moving. I’m not going to disclaim I had a little bit tear in my eye at the top of the film because I cared passionately concerning the message that it delivered. And the message that it delivered is that the general public had a right to know that we usually are not alone.”
Reality Check: Road to Disclosure will include an interview with Spielberg as well — just not an original. NewsNation will borrow that from KTLA, the Fox affiliate in Los Angeles. Nexstar owns each channels.
NewsNation describes the special as a “cinematic, investigative journey through the history of UFO disclosure. From ancient sightings and the ‘Roswell Incident’ to modern-day whistleblowers, congressional hearings, and declassified files, the special will explore the people, events and unanswered questions that fuel global fascination with the unexplained phenomena.”
Reality Check: Road to Disclosure will feature evaluation, archival footage and celebrity interviews, together with “reactions to Disclosure Day.” Those have been quite positive.
In his review, The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic, David Rooney, called Disclosure Day “spellbinding,” in order that’s a reasonably good endorsement. Read his full review here.