--- title: Bridge of Spies Preview: Exclusive Clip: Tom Hanks Spy Fim description: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's latest collaboration comes out Oct. 16 canonical: https://time.com/4053262/bridge-of-spies-tom-hanks-clip/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-29T16:00:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:20:24.595Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Bridge of Spies Preview: Exclusive Clip: Tom Hanks Spy Fim og:description: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's latest collaboration comes out Oct. 16 og:url: https://time.com/4053262/bridge-of-spies-tom-hanks-clip/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt120eb74b02f99edd/698865f52dce01cdcc9e5c3d/screen-shot-2015-09-29-at-12-06-36-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-12.06.36-PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bridge of Spies Preview: Exclusive Clip: Tom Hanks Spy Fim twitter:description: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's latest collaboration comes out Oct. 16 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt120eb74b02f99edd/698865f52dce01cdcc9e5c3d/screen-shot-2015-09-29-at-12-06-36-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Tom Hanks in a New Clip From Steven Spielberg's _Bridge of Spies_  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Sep 29, 2015 4:00 PM UTC   by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Sep 29, 2015 4:00 PM UTC In Steven Spielberg’s _Bridge of Spies_, his first film since 2012’s _Lincoln_, the director returns to the scope of American history for a less familiar tale. The film depicts the intrigue surrounding James B. Donovan (played by Tom Hanks), a lawyer who’s engaged first in defending a Soviet spy captured on U.S. soil and then in exchanging a prisoner exchange, trading that spy to the U.S.S.R. in exchange for imprisoned Americans. In a new clip from the film, Hanks engages in high-stakes negotiations on behalf of the Americans, suggesting that captured spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) will turn double agent if he, and his captured American counterpart, are not both set free. It’s a glimpse at Hanks’s surprising cunning in the role of Donovan, and the boundless bureaucracy he runs up against in the process. _Bridge of Spies_ comes out October 16. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4053262/bridge-of-spies-tom-hanks-clip/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4053262/bridge-of-spies-tom-hanks-clip/"},"headline":"See Tom Hanks in a New Clip From Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies","datePublished":"2015-09-29T16:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:20:24.595Z","description":"Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's latest collaboration comes out Oct. 16","url":"https://time.com/4053262/bridge-of-spies-tom-hanks-clip/","keywords":["movies","Tom Hanks","steven spielberg"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt120eb74b02f99edd/698865f52dce01cdcc9e5c3d/screen-shot-2015-09-29-at-12-06-36-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt120eb74b02f99edd/698865f52dce01cdcc9e5c3d/screen-shot-2015-09-29-at-12-06-36-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-12.06.36-PM","caption":"","creditText":"","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/4053262/bridge-of-spies-tom-hanks-clip/","name":"See Tom Hanks in a New Clip From Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies"}}]}] ```