Overview
- Empire’s April cover story, which reaches newsstands Thursday, April 9, debuts new images and explains who the main characters are.
- The film frames a high-stakes question of “disclosure,” exploring whether contact has occurred and who decides what the public gets to know.
- Emily Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, Josh O’Connor is Daniel Kellner, Colin Firth portrays Wardex leader Noah Scanlon, with Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield and Eve Hewson as Jane Blakenship.
- Spielberg wrote the story and brought in longtime collaborator David Koepp to script it, telling Empire the project resolves his personal curiosity about alien life.
- Emily Blunt says the movie answers questions raised by Close Encounters of the Third Kind, signaling a thematic link to Spielberg’s earlier work.