New Bridge of Spies Featurette

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Tom Hanks talks about reading the script for Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming spy thriller Bridge of Spies and finding it “fascinating” in a new featurette here. Entitled ‘Taking A Stand’, the featurette also sees director Steven Spielberg comment Hanks was “the obvious choice to play Donovan”, the central character of Bridge of Spies, which is based on true events.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies is a dramatic thriller which tells the story of James Donovan (played by Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn insurance claims lawyer who finds himself thrust into the centre of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

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