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Jeremy Allen White Strips It All Down in First Trailer For Bruce Springsteen Biopic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere'
Fans will have to wait until Oct. 24 to see the eagerly anticipated Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. But they got a teaser on Wednesday morning (June 18) when the first trailer for the film starring The Bear's Jeremy Allen White as the Boss dropped, revealing the shape and mood of the film that will follow the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's introspective sessions for his stark, 1982 acoustic album Nebraska. The two-and-a-half minute preview opens with White as Springsteen sitting in a Camaro on a car lot as he tells the salesman that he's never owned a new vehicle before. 'It's awfully fitting for a handsome devil rock star,' the salesman says, tipping his hat that he knows exactly who his low-key, famous client is. 'Well that makes one of us,' White replies. More from Billboard Bruce Springsteen Says Goodbye to Brian Wilson & His 'Otherworldly Ear' for Music: 'Farewell, Maestro' Sunscreen, Speakers & More Pool Party Essentials to Help Heat Up Your Summer How 'Elio' Composer Rob Simonsen Married Space Disco, Choir Dolls & Talking Heads to Bring Pixar's Sci-Fi Adventure to Life We next see Springsteen in his New Jersey bedroom with his guitar tech Mike Batlan (Paul Walter Hauser) as he works out the stripped-down sound of the Nebraska title track. 'Don't need to be perfect,' he tells Batlan, 'I want it to feel like I'm in the room by myself.' Director Scott Cooper's movie also features Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jeremy Strong as Springsteen's longtime manager and confidant Jon Landau, who is seen telling a record exec that his client's deeply personal album is 'not about the charts. This is about Bruce Springsteen and these are the songs that he wants to work on right now,' as White moans out the lyrics to the album's haunting title song. Over images of White looking at old pictures, Strong tells a story about the singer's childhood bedroom, which had a hole in its floor. That hole becomes a metaphor for Springsteen's complicated relationship with his withholding father (played by Adolescence's Stephen Graham). 'Bruce is a repairman,' Strong says. 'And what he's doing with this album is he's repairing that hole in his floor. He's repairing that hole in himself… and once he's done that, he's going to repair the entire world.' The two-and-a-half-minute trailer ends with triumphant footage of a sweat-drenched White howling 'Born to Run' on stage with the E Street Band, the veins in his neck strained to the extreme as he pulls off one of the rocker's signature stage hops. Springsteen spent time on the set of the film earlier this year and he professed to be very impressed with White's work. In a chat on SiriusXM's E Street Radio in January, the 75-year-old rocker was asked if it felt weird to see White play him on screen. 'A little bit at first, but you get over that pretty quick and Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it,' Springsteen said. 'He's got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognize and he's just done a great job, so I've had a lot of fun. I've had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.' In high praise from the singer known for his signature raspy, emotive voice, Springsteen said White was nailing it. 'He sings well,' he said. 'He sings very well.' Springsteen gave his full blessing for the adaptation of Warren Zanes' book of the same name and in an interview earlier this year White said he'd studied hours and hours of video and worked with a vocal coach to nail Bruce's vocal tone and speaking cadence. The film also features Odessa Young (A Million Little Pieces) as Springsteen's girlfriend, Gaby Hoffman (Transparent) as his mom, Adele, Marc Maron (Sticks) as record producer Chuck Plotkin and David Krumholtz (Oppenheimer) as a Columbia Records executive. Check out the Deliver Me From Nowhere trailer below. Best of Billboard Kelly Clarkson, Michael Buble, Pentatonix & Train Will Bring Their Holiday Hits to iHeart Christmas Concert Fox Plans NFT Debut With $20 'Masked Singer' Collectibles 14 Things That Changed (or Didn't) at Farm Aid 2021
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Bruce Springsteen Reflects on ‘Painful Days' Depicted in Upcoming Biopic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere'
Bruce Springsteen is opening up about his upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the 75-year-old rock icon shared his thoughts on director Scott Cooper's upcoming film, which is set to hit theaters on Oct. 24. More from Billboard Rachel Zegler Serenades Crowd Outside Theater for Free in a New London Production of 'Evita' Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to Receive Vanguard Award at The Guitar Center Music Foundation Gala & Benefit Concert Shakira Announces Two More Dates in Mexico, Extending Record to 28 Though Springsteen's touring schedule limited his time on set, he said The Bear actor Jeremy Allen White and the crew were gracious during his visits. 'Jeremy Allen White was very, very tolerant of me the days that I would appear on the set,' Springsteen told the publication. 'I said to him, 'Look, anytime I'm in the way, just give me the look and I'm on my way home.' So the days that I got out there, he was wonderfully tolerant with me being there. And it was just fun. It was enjoyable.' Still, The Boss admitted that he avoided being present for certain emotionally intense moments during filming. 'I mean, there's some unusualness to it because the movie involves, in some ways, some of the most painful days of my life,' he said. 'If there was a scene coming up that was sometimes really deeply personal, I wanted the actors to feel completely free, and I didn't want to get in the way, and so I would just stay at home.' Deliver Me From Nowhere is based on Warren Zanes' book of the same name and chronicles the making of Springsteen's 1982 acoustic album, Nebraska. Check out a recap of the film's first trailer here. The film features Allen as Springsteen, Jeremy Strong as longtime manager Jon Landau, Stephen Graham as the musician's father, Odessa Young as his girlfriend, Gaby Hoffmann as his mother, Marc Maron as producer Chuck Plotkin, and David Krumholtz as a Columbia Records executive. Earlier this year, Springsteen told SiriusXM's E Street Radio that seeing White play him on screen took some getting used to. 'A little bit at first, but you get over that pretty quick and Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it,' he said. 'He's got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognize and he's just done a great job, so I've had a lot of fun. I've had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.' For his part, White has said he spent hours studying video footage and worked closely with a vocal coach to capture Springsteen's unique voice and cadence. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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THE DARK SIDE
Not much information about the film is available as of this writing, save for a trailer that premiered July 18 and a release date of October 24, 2025. Other than that, all we know is that Scott Cooper is directing, Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen and Jeremy Strong plays Jon Landau, and that shooting has taken place in various New Jersey locations including Freehold, where Springsteen grew up, and the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, where he launched his career and has returned to throughout the years. My first thought was, why make a movie about recording Nebraska? Then I read Warren Zanes' book Deliver Me From Nowhere, on which the movie is based. More from Spin: Pinball Wizards THE CHARACTER ASSASINATION OF MO TROPER See Jeremy Allen White As Bruce Springsteen In First Biopic Trailer It's a dark story. Zanes was inspired to write his book, which came out in 2023, after reading Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run, and noticing that the chapter on the making of Nebraska was surprisingly short. Zanes tells me: 'That section about Nebraska blows by in three pages. I'm thinking, 'There's no way.' That was a major turning point. I felt there was more to the story.' Nebraska, a mostly acoustic, starkly literary 10-track imperfect masterpiece, features downtrodden and at times downright evil characters, such as Joe Roberts and his criminal brother in 'Highway Patrolman,' the estranged son searching for his father in 'My Father's House,' the poor siblings in 'Mansion on the Hill,' and the serial killer Charles Starkweather. And the LP came two years after Springsteen's fastest-selling album to date, The River. Between December 17, 1981 and January 3, 1982, Springsteen recorded 17 demo tracks in the back bedroom of a rental house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, a 12-minute drive from Freehold. Sitting on the edge of his bed with his Gibson J-200, a harmonica, a couple of mics, and a consumer-grade TEAC four-track cassette player, the songs he put to tape were meant to be sketches he would teach the E. Street Band to play for the final, full-ensemble, studio versions. Seven of the tracks he did save for Born in the U.S.A. The other 10, for reasons he couldn't explain at the time, kept calling to him, begging for attention. So he quickly mixed the songs through a Gibson Echoplex, then mastered them onto the water-logged Panasonic boombox he had sitting on his couch, which, according to Zanes' book, had miraculously come back to life despite falling out of a canoe. When Landau first heard the cassette, he told Zanes he was concerned 'on a friendship level' due to the dark, sinister nature of the songs. Up to that point, Springsteen's songs were about redemption. The tape Landau heard, however, was stark and violent, lonely and sad; the opposite of Springsteen's signature writing style. Springsteen spent weeks in the studio trying to turn those demos into full-blown E. Street tracks, complete with Clarence Clemons' signature saxophone sound. According to Zane's book, while others thought the sessions were going well, Springsteen did not. ''Every time I tried to make the recordings better, I lost my characters,' he told Zane. The songs—the ones on the cassette he continually carried around in the back pocket of his jeans —as if by some mystical force wouldn't allow it. Springsteen released Nebraska on September 30, 1982 with very little fanfare. No American singles. No tour. No photos of him on the cover; just a black and white image of a desolate, rural highway, taken from the dashboard of a car. A now insanely iconic album cover. 'He's just had his first No.1 record, and his first top 10 single. He's poised to go big. No one around him is making a decision to go 'lo-fi' in the wake of their first No.1 album,' says Zanes. 'You get this color from the TEAC 144, and then you get a layer from the boombox they mixed down to, which had water damage, and then they run everything through an Echoplex, which simulates that early Sun Records slap back,' Zanes tells me. Fans were confused at first. But once they listened to the songwriting, unparalleled to anything he'd released before, it resonated in such a deep, emotional way that more than 40 years later, 20th Century Studios is making a film about it. The imperfections of Nebraska is a reflection of the imperfection of Springsteen's early life. Unresolved trauma from his childhood seeped into the album. As Zanes explains, that's what's so compelling. 'He had trauma in his past that he was either going to contend with or it was going to contend with him.' That stemmed mainly from his father, Douglas, who had a bad temper, struggled with depression, was an alcoholic, and suffered from mental illness that would later be diagnosed as schizophrenia. Because Douglas couldn't keep a job, the Springsteen household moved in with Bruce's grandparents shortly after his sister Virginia was born in 1951. The house was in complete disrepair with only one functional room. During the five years they stayed there, Springsteen describes in Zanes' book how he was given free rein to do whatever he wanted. No discipline at all. 'It destroyed me and it made me. At the same time,' Springsteen said. It turns out that the making of Nebraska was like turning on a valve of a darkness he didn't realize he had inside of him, a depression that caused him to have a breakdown around the time of the album's release. 'When someone goes back to a difficult childhood, exploring the facts of what went down is not enough,' Zanes tells me. 'You have to dig to find out what those facts mean to you as an adult facing trouble in your life. Not that he did this on a conscious level. He didn't know at the outset what he was going back into.' Springsteen started going to therapy. He began working out, transforming himself into 'The Boss.' Two years later he released Born in the U.S.A., which made him a superstar. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here.
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2 days ago
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First trailer for new Bruce Springsteen biopic released
The first trailer for the much anticipated new Bruce Springsteen biopic has been released – with actor Jeremy Allen White in the role of the Boss. The Bear star plays a young Springsteen in Deliver Me From Nowhere, which chronicles the musician making his 1982 album Nebraska – featuring the singles Atlantic City, My Father's House and State Trooper. Advertisement The trailer shows short excerpts from the film, many of them with him playing guitar. The first scene of the trailer shows a car dealer telling Springsteen's character: 'I do know who you are.' A solemn-looking Springsteen answers: 'Well, that makes one of us.' Flashbacks show Springsteen as a young boy with his father, played by British actor Stephen Graham. The film, from 20th Century Studios, is due to be released in cinemas on October 24th. Advertisement The cast also features Succession actor Jeremy Strong as Springsteen's long-time mentor and manager, Jon Landau, Cruella star Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan, and Mothering Sunday actress Odessa Young as love interest Faye. Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen (PA) Nebraska pre-dated 1984's Born In The USA, the title of one of 75-year-old Springsteen's most known songs, and came after his 1975 breakthrough record Born To Run. Director Scott Cooper, who wrote the script based on the book Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes, said: 'Making Springsteen was deeply moving as it allowed me to step inside the soul of an artist I've long admired – and to witness, up close, the vulnerability and strength behind his music. 'The experience felt like a journey through memory, myth, and truth. And more than anything, it was a privilege to translate that raw emotional honesty to the screen, and in doing so, it changed me. I cannot thank Bruce and Jon Landau enough for allowing me to tell their story.' Advertisement White has led all three seasons of hit drama The Bear, winning two Emmys and two Golden Globes for his role as chef Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto. He is also known for playing Phillip Ronan 'Lip' Gallagher in the US version of Shameless, and wrestler Kerry Von Erich in The Iron Claw.
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2 days ago
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Trailer For Jeremy Allen White's Bruce Springsteen Biopic DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE — GeekTyrant
20th Century Studios has released the trailer for Jeremy Allen White's upcoming Bruce Springsteen bipic in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere . The movie tells the story of the making of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 'Nebraska' album, 'a raw, haunted acoustic record that marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works.' The film was helmed by Scott Cooper, who directed Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart, and it inspired by the book from Warren Zanes about Springsteen making 'Nebraska.' 'When he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen's New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.' Cooper shared in a statement: 'Making 'Springsteen' was deeply moving as it allowed me to step inside the soul of an artist I've long admired - and to witness, up close, the vulnerability and strength behind his music. The experience felt like a journey through memory, myth, and truth. 'And more than anything, it was a privilege to translate that raw emotional honesty to the screen, and in doing so, it changed me. I cannot thank Bruce and Jon Landau enough for allowing me to tell their story.' The cast also includes Jeremy Strong ( Succession ) as Jon Landau, Springsteen's manager; Stephen Graham ( Adolescence ) as Springsteen's dad Douglas; Paul Walter Hauser ( Richard Jewell ) as recording engineer Mike Batlan; Odessa Young ( The Order ), as Springsteen's love interest Faye; Marc Maron ( Glow ) as producer Chuck Plotkin; Johnny Cannizzaro ( Jersey Boys ) as E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt; Harrison Gilbertson ( Upgrade ) as Springsteen's friend Matt Delia; David Krumholtz ( Oppenheimer ) as Columbia record executive Al Teller and Chris Jaymes ( Short Term 12 ) as mastering engineer Dennis King. Deliver Me From Nowhere comes from Disney's 20th Century Studios and is produced by Cooper with the Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson, who helped develop the project. Springsteen and Landau are also involved with the project. The film will release in theaters on Oct. 24 Watch the official trailer below.
