Based on the novel of the same name, Steven Spielberg’s latest movie ‘Bridge of Spies’ stars Tom Hanks as an American lawyer recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.
At the movie’s world premiere at the New York Film Festival, director Steven Spielberg said the cast really did the story justice: “This is an ensemble performance piece,” he said. “And it’s not just Tom Hanks, who is amazing in this movie, or Mark Rylance, who is equally amazing, but it’s all the cast that support them in the telling of this true story. The story is based on true events. So, in that sense, I have tremendous satisfaction at the end of this experience, it’s such an actor’s movie.”
Starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda, the film’s screenplay is by up-and-coming British dramatist Matt Charman, and was punched up in recognisable places by award-winning brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
“This is an old-fashioned film in that it doesn’t
