--- title: Bridge of Spies Trailer: Steven Spielberg Tom Hanks Cold War Thriller description: Hanks and Spielberg receive an assist from the Coen brothers, who penned the screenplay canonical: https://time.com/3949972/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-08T19:51:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:53.986Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Tom Hanks in the Trailer for Steven Spielberg ’s 'Bridge of Spies' og:description: Hanks and Spielberg receive an assist from the Coen brothers, who penned the screenplay og:url: https://time.com/3949972/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb9c89372ee4138c/69885a1e2dce01732b9e4892/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tom Hanks at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on March 2, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Tom Hanks in the Trailer for Steven Spielberg ’s 'Bridge of Spies' twitter:description: Hanks and Spielberg receive an assist from the Coen brothers, who penned the screenplay twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb9c89372ee4138c/69885a1e2dce01732b9e4892/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Tom Hanks in the Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Thriller _Bridge of Spies_  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 8, 2015 7:51 PM UTC  Tom Hanks at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on March 2, 2015. Tom Hanks at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on March 2, 2015.Taylor Hill--FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 8, 2015 7:51 PM UTC America’s favorite director and America’s favorite leading man have teamed up again. With _Bridge of Spies_, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, whose partnership has yielded such classics as _Saving Private Ryan_ and _Catch Me If You Can_, bring Cold War tensions to life. The duo is joined by Joel and Ethan Coen, who have adapted Giles Whittell’s nonfiction book about the man caught in the middle of the 1960 U-2 incident for the big screen. Hanks plays James B. Donovan, a lawyer called upon to defend a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. and then to negotiate his exchange for an American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union. The trailer has a bespectacled Hanks, as Donovan, in over his head with the fate of the free world resting squarely on his shoulders. _Bridge of Spies_, which costars Alan Alda, Amy Ryan and Mark Rylance, is slated to hit theaters on Oct. 16. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3949972/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3949972/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg/"},"headline":"Watch Tom Hanks in the Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Thriller Bridge of Spies","datePublished":"2015-07-08T19:51:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:53.986Z","description":"Hanks and Spielberg receive an assist from the Coen brothers, who penned the screenplay","url":"https://time.com/3949972/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Movie trailers","Trailers","Tom Hanks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb9c89372ee4138c/69885a1e2dce01732b9e4892/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb9c89372ee4138c/69885a1e2dce01732b9e4892/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tom Hanks at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on March 2, 2015.","caption":"Tom Hanks at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on March 2, 2015.","creditText":"Taylor Hill--FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3949972/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg/","name":"Watch Tom Hanks in the Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Thriller Bridge of Spies"}}]}] ```