‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Trailer: Jeremy Allen White Embodies the Boss in First-Look Biopic
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“Trapped in the middle of nowhere.” That’s how Bruce Springsteen once described the emotional headspace of Nebraska, his stark 1982 album that stripped down his sound to something bare, haunted, and intimately American. Now, in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) taps into that raw nerve in the first official trailer for 20th Century Studios’ highly anticipated biopic — and judging by the footage, it might just be his Oscar moment.
Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), who helped Jeff Bridges win Best Actor for playing a washed-up country singer, this new film charts the pivotal moment in Springsteen’s career when he turned inward. Adapted from Warren Zanes’ book, the film tells the story behind Nebraska, the home-recorded, lo-fi masterpiece that confounded studio executives and solidified Springsteen’s myth as America’s working-class poet laureate.
Jeremy Allen White trades kitchen chaos for studio solitude as he inhabits the Boss during one of the most creatively vulnerable periods of his life. Gone is the stadium rock swagger — what’s left is a man in a room with a tape recorder, battling his demons and chasing truth.
Backing White is an ensemble that suggests awards season ambitions: Jeremy Strong (Succession, The Apprentice) plays longtime manager Jon Landau — the man who famously said, “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Stephen Graham steps in as Springsteen’s troubled father, while Odessa Young portrays Faye, a fictionalized version of the woman who helped Bruce through the dark emotional terrain of his early 30s.
Paul Walter Hauser, Marc Maron, Johnny Cannizzaro, David Krumholtz, and Chris Jaymes round out a stacked cast that surrounds White with character actors ready to build out the gritty world of Nebraska’s creation — a world less concerned with celebrity than survival.
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Produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, and Eric Robinson of The Gotham Group, with Springsteen and Landau also directly involved, Deliver Me From Nowhere joins the growing canon of music biopics with serious awards heat. From Bohemian Rhapsody and Elvis to this year’s A Complete Unknown, the genre continues to act as a proving ground for actors to inhabit larger-than-life legends. White, coming off a Golden Globe-winning turn in The Bear, could be next.
The film’s trailer promises a grounded, soulful tone. Shot on what appears to be grain-heavy stock or digital emulation, the visuals match the stripped-down aesthetic of Nebraska itself. No big concert montages here — just long takes, hard stares, reel-to-reel recorders, and quiet moments that ache.
If the finished film lives up to the trailer’s promise, Deliver Me From Nowhere won’t just be another music biopic — it could be this generation’s answer to I’m Not There or Walk the Line: less about charting fame and more about illuminating the creative toll behind the icon.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere hits theaters October 24 via 20th Century Studios.
Watch the trailer below.
