Check out the official trailer for Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda, right now on Fan Reviews! <br /> <br />Bridge of Spies Release Date: <br />October 16, 2015 <br /> <br />Bridge of Spies is an upcoming 2015 American historical biography drama military-political action cold war-spy thriller film. directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen. The film stars Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. It is based on the 1960 U-2 incident and novel of the same name for non-fiction book by Giles Whittell, in which lawyer James B. Donovan (Hanks) is thrust into the center of the Cold War when he is given a mission to negotiate the release of Francis Gary Powers, a pilot whose plane was shot down in the Soviet Union.