STEVEN SPIELBERG’S DRAMATIC THRILLER
STARRING TOM HANKS TITLED “BRIDGE OF SPIES”
DreamWorks Pictures’/Fox 2000 Pictures’ upcoming dramatic thriller directed by three-time Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Schindler’s List”) and starring two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump,” “Philadelphia”), has been titled “Bridge of Spies.” In addition, 12-time Oscar® nominee Thomas Newman (“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Saving Mr. Banks”) has been signed to score the film, as John Williams’ schedule was interrupted and he was unavailable to score the film due to a minor health issue, now corrected.
A
dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic
events, “Bridge of Spies” tells the story of James Donovan (Hanks),
a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center 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. Screenwriters Matt Charman and
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen have woven this remarkable
experience in Donovan’s life into a story inspired by true events that
captures the essence of a man who risked everything and vividly brings
his personal journey to life. The film will be released in theaters
nationwide on October 16, 2015.
Williams,
whose credits include “Stars Wars: The Force Awakens” and the “Harry
Potter” films, will join Spielberg on his next film, “The BFG,”
beginning later this year, continuing their
unprecedented collaboration which they have enjoyed for over 40 years.
Newman
has scored many films for DreamWorks, including "The Help,” “Road to
Perdition" and "American Beauty,” the latter two for which he received
Academy Award® nominations for Best
Original Score.
“Bridge of Spies”
also stars three-time Tony Award®
winner Mark Rylance (“Twelfth Night,” “Jerusalem,” “Boeing Boeing”) as
Rudolf Abel, a KGB agent defended by Donovan; Scott Shepherd (“Side
Effects”) as CIA operative
Hoffman; Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan (“Birdman,” “Gone Baby Gone”)
as James’ wife, Mary; Sebastian Koch (“A Good Day to Die Hard”) as East
German lawyer Vogel; and Academy Award nominee Alan Alda (“M*A*S*H,”
“The Aviator”) as Thomas Watters, a partner
at Donovan’s law firm.
Fox
2000 Pictures co-financed “Bridge of Spies” with DreamWorks in
association with Participant Media, and will distribute internationally.
Disney will handle domestic distribution. In
addition to directing, Spielberg will produce the film with Marc Platt
(“Into the Woods,” “Drive”) and Kristie Macosko Krieger (“Lincoln”),
with Adam Somner (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), Daniel Lupi (“Her”), Jeff
Skoll (“The Hundred-Foot Journey”) and Jonathan
King (“Cesar Chavez”) serving as executive producers. The screenplay is
by Matt Charman (“Suite Francaise”) and three-time Academy Award®
winners Ethan Coen & Joel Coen (“No Country for Old Men,” “Fargo”).
About DreamWorks Studios:
DreamWorks
Studios is a motion picture company formed in 2009 and led by Steven
Spielberg in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
The
company’s recent releases include “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” starring
Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon and directed by
Lasse Hallström based on the best-selling novel by Richard C. Morais,
and the car-racing actioner “Need for Speed,”
starring Aaron Paul. Other releases include: the comedy “Delivery Man,”
starring Vince Vaughn; Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” starring Daniel
Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones, which grossed over $270
million at the worldwide box office and was nominated
for 12 Academy Awards® with Daniel Day-Lewis winning for Best Actor;
“Real Steel,” starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy;
Spielberg’s “War Horse,” based on Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning book
and nominated for six Academy Awards including Best
Picture; and “The Help,” which resonated with audiences around the
country and earned over $200 million at the box office and received four
Academy Award nominations with Octavia Spencer winning for Best
Supporting Actress. Upcoming films include “The Light
Between Oceans,” directed by Derek Cianfrance and based on the novel by
M. L. Stedman, which stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and
Rachel Weisz and “The BFG,” based on the beloved novel by Roald Dahl,
starring Mark Rylance and to be directed by Spielberg.
DreamWorks can be found on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/DreamWorksStudiosand
on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/dw_studios.
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