Spielberg Rejected His Close Encounters Script. Now He's Calling Disclosure Day "Leftovers."

Steven Spielberg Says “Disclosure Day” Is NOT Science Fiction * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

It used to be you could go see a movie and it could just be a fun movie…a summer blockbuster. […]

Spielberg Rejected His Close Encounters Script. Now He's Calling Disclosure Day "Leftovers."

Paul Schrader wrote the original Close Encounters script before Spielberg passed on it. Now he's calling Disclosure Day reheated leftovers. Guadagnino agrees. The critics don't. Spielberg Rejected His Close Encounters Script. Now He’s Calling Disclosure Day “Leftovers.” Written by Jarrod Saunders for Fortress of Solitude

Paul Schrader Dismisses Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’: “A Master Chef Makes a Soufflé Out of Leftovers”

Paul Schrader and Steven Spielberg go way back. They were part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers in the 1970s. They were part of the same circle that included Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola. They all competed intensely as filmmakers with one another. One of the most significant connections between Spielberg and Schrader is that the latter wrote an early screenplay draft of “Close Encounters of…