20th Century Studios has unveiled the full-length trailer for “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the upcoming biopic about New Jersey-born rock and roll singer Bruce Springsteen.
“The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White plays the iconic blue-collar American musician who first broke through in the mid-1970s and defined a generation with hit songs across the 1980s and 1990s.
Filmmaker Scott Cooper pens and directs the film which chronicles the making of Springsteen’s fifth album, 1982’s “Nebraska”. At this point, Springsteen had early success and was on the verge of global superstardom.
But he also had ghosts in his past – specifically a rocky relationship with his WW2 veteran father, who had serious alcohol abuse and mental health issues and embodied many of the traits these days defined, albeit reductively, as ‘toxic masculinity’.
The album, recorded on a four-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most artistically strong works – “a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe”.
The film also stars 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, Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mother, Odessa Young as his love interest Faye, Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin and David Krumholtz as Columbia Records executive Al Teller.
Cooper adapts the script from the book of the same name by Warren Zanes. “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” opens in cinemas on October 24th.
