10 Most Hotly-Anticipated Historical Films Still To Be Released In 2015

5. Bridge Of Spies

It would not be Hollywood if there wasn't at least one big-budget Cold War spy-thriller released on an annual basis, and Steven Spielberg-directed "Bridge of Spies" looks to be the pick of the bunch from that genre this year. History lovers out there will be thrilled to see a story - loosely based on the 1960 U-2 incident, when an American spy plane was show down over Soviet airspace - depicting one of the most important incidents throughout the entire Cold War. The U-2 incident effectively ended diplomatic relations between US President Dwight D Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, forcing the latter to take a far-more aggressive foreign-policy stance once President John F Kennedy was elected. In the film, lawyer James B Donovan (Tom Hanks) is given the role of flying to the Soviet Union and attempting to negotiate the release of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) - something that was made all-the-more difficult by the US government's attempts to cover-up the purpose of the spy mission above the USSR. Written by Matt Charman, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, this film - due to for release in October - could not have a more -dramatic premise from which to work, and Spielberg appears to have handpicked the lead actors in order to make this screenplay into a potential instant classic.