At that event, both fired passive aggressive salvos at their purported allys Middle East strategy.

Several days later, Russia began bombing U.S. backed rebels in Syria.

Its interesting about the national conversation, theBridge of Spiesdirector said.

It just doesnt work that way.

Spielberg pointed out that those headlines of course had not been written when he first started developing this film.

But there is so much relevance between the story in 1960 and the story today.

The cyber-hacking thats going on today is just like the spying that went on then.

A lot of cyber-hacking is sports cyber-hacking.

Its not even toward any goal in sight.

Today, you just dont know that when youre watching television if television is actually watching you.

I knew nothing about this story two years ago, Spielberg said.

And then MGM at the time said, No, I dont think were going to tell this story.

And I didnt even know that until a couple of hours ago!

Who did end up writing theBridge of Spiesscreenplay represents one of the more unexpected collaborations in recent memory.

Rylance, who also attended the press conference, agreed and credits the Coens with massaging out the details.

It wasnt a different story.

What mattered creatively was Matts body [of the story].

But they just really got the spine in place and massaged it, and clipped a few things.

And it felt even more alive and whole.

Theres a number of great examples of it throughout.

But that first scene, which is essentially an insurance negotiation, thats them to a tee.

They just lock into the antagonist/protagonist thing.

And that just never happens with this.

And I must say, its pretty cool when you get to wrap your head around it.

Its often similar arguments about justice and security.

[Donovan] said, You cant accuse this man of treason.

Hes not a traitor.

Hes actually a patriot to his cause.

Only an American can be a traitor, and only an American can commit treason against their own country.

And thats not what America is about, and this is what Donovan took with him from the get-go.

Bridge of Spiespremiered at the New York Film Festival and is in theaters everywhere on Friday, Oct. 16.