--- title: Watch New Trailer for 'Bridge of Spies' Starring Tom Hanks description: Meet the 'Standing Man' canonical: https://time.com/4036152/bridge-spies-trailer/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-16T14:23:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:58:27.519Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the New Trailer for 'Bridge of Spies' Featuring the 'Standing Man' og:description: Tom Hanks plays a Brooklyn lawyer negotiating the release of an American pilot og:url: https://time.com/4036152/bridge-spies-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef3764f1165c8da1/698863ce524fc040d9df4854/bridge-of-spies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings In New York City - October 07, 2014 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the New Trailer for 'Bridge of Spies' Featuring the 'Standing Man' twitter:description: Tom Hanks plays a Brooklyn lawyer negotiating the release of an American pilot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef3764f1165c8da1/698863ce524fc040d9df4854/bridge-of-spies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the New Trailer for _Bridge of Spies_ Featuring the 'Standing Man' by [Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly Sep 16, 2015 2:23 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 07: Tom Hanks filming Steven Spielberg's "St James Place" on October 7, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Steve Sands/GC Images) NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 07: Tom Hanks filming Steven Spielberg's "St James Place" on October 7, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Steve Sands/GC Images)Steve Sands—Getty Images by [Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly Sep 16, 2015 2:23 PM UTC It has been 11 years since Steven Spielberg directed Tom Hanks in a feature film, but the oft-connected collaborators will reunite in October for _Bridge of Spies_, Spielberg’s Cold War drama about a Brooklyn insurance claims lawyer tasked with negotiating the release of a captured American U-2 spy plane pilot. “I think the character that Tom Hanks plays, James B. Donovan, he was what you would call the Standing Man,” Spielberg said in a production feature for the film, which has its new trailer – aptly titled “Standing Man” – debuting above. “The stand-up kind of guy who stands up for what he believes in to be a universal truth, which is basically justice for all – regardless of what side of the Iron Curtain you are on. He was only interested in the letter of the law.” Set during the 1950s, _Bridge of Spies_ focuses on Donovan and his interactions with a captured Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), amid the heightened stakes of post-World War II society. It’s Abel who takes to calling Donovan the Standing Man, as he reminds the captured Soviet of a man from his childhood. “This man, my father’s friend, he was beaten. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again,” Abel says during the trailer. “They hit him harder, still he got back to his feet. I think because of this they let him live.” “I thought Tom was the obvious choice to play Donovan,” Spielberg continued. “Tom’s own morality and his own sense of equality and fairness, and the fact that Tom does such good things in the world, by using, wisely, his celebrity and intelligence and points of view – he has so many of them – that I thought it was a good fit to play Donovan.” Also starring Amy Ryan, and written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, _Bridge of Spies_ will have its world premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival before bowing in theaters on Oct. 16\. Check out the exclusive new trailer for the film above. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/16/bridge-of-spies-trailer-tom-hanks) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4036152/bridge-spies-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4036152/bridge-spies-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the New Trailer for Bridge of Spies Featuring the 'Standing Man'","datePublished":"2015-09-16T14:23:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:58:27.519Z","description":"Tom Hanks plays a Brooklyn insurance lawyer tasked with negotiating the release of a captured American pilot","url":"https://time.com/4036152/bridge-spies-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Trailer","Tom Hanks","steven spielberg"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef3764f1165c8da1/698863ce524fc040d9df4854/bridge-of-spies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef3764f1165c8da1/698863ce524fc040d9df4854/bridge-of-spies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - October 07, 2014","caption":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - October 07, 2014","creditText":"Steve Sands—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/4036152/bridge-spies-trailer/","name":"Watch the New Trailer for Bridge of Spies Featuring the 'Standing Man'"}}]}] ```