Boss Level: Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in First “Deliver Me From Nowhere” Trailer
Enter the Boss.
The first trailer for writer/director Scott Cooper’s Deliver Me From Nowhere is here, giving us our first look at Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen at a crucial point in his legendary career. Cooper’s film, based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere” by Warren Zanes, follows Springsteen’s soulful, searching process of making his seminal 1982 album “Nebraska,” back when the Boss was still finding his voice and his place in the world.
Springsteen’s journey to make “Nebraska” feels tailor-made for a cinematic adaptation, and White certainly looks and sounds the part in this first glimpse. Springsteen recorded the album on a 4-track recorder in his New Jersey bedroom, a haunting, self-searching acoustic work that plumbed his past. “Nebraska” was a stripped-down, acoustic meditation on American darkness and marked a radical departure from his arena-rock anthems. It has become one of his most enduring legacies and is often cited as one of the greatest albums of the 1980s, according to Rolling Stone, as well as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
White appears to be a great casting choice here, capturing Springsteen’s depth, his essential vulnerability matched by his legendary intensity and work ethic. It’s also a great moment in Springsteen’s career to portray, at a moment when the Boss was at a crossroads between his Jersey boy blue-collar rock stardom and his calling to dig deeper and explore more of his artistic sensibility.
Joining White are Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau; Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan; Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Doug, Odessa Young as love interest, Faye; Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mom, Adele; Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin, and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive, Al Teller.
Check out the trailer below. Deliver Me From Nowhere hits theaters on October 24.
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Featured image: Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in 20th Century Studios’ DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. Photo by Mark Seliger. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
