<em>Deliver Me from Nowhere</em>: Everything We Know About the Bruce Springsteen Movie

Folks, your next biopic about a tormented music legend is here—Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. A Complete Unknown put on a hell of a campaign to try to win Timothée Chalamet his first Oscar as Bob Dylan last year, but maybe Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) as Bruce Springsteen can take home the gold. Thanks to the first official trailer (below), it sure looks like White and Co. have awards-season aspirations on the brain.

“I’m trying to find something real in all the noise,” White says as Springsteen in the preview. There’s also the obligatory shot of the Boss looking over Asbury Park, driving down the exact road from the Nebraska album cover, and screaming “Born to Run” over a sweaty, likely four-hour concert.

The film follows Springsteen in 1982 during the creation of Nebraska, a deeply personal and acoustic album that he recorded on a four-track machine in his New Jersey bedroom. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass) and based on the based on the 2023 biography by Warren Zanes titled Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. The film also stars Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau, Springsteen’s longtime manager; Paul Walter Hauser as Mike Batlan, his recording engineer; Stephen Graham as Doug Springsteen, his father; Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin, his producer; and Odessa Young as Faye, his fictional love interest.

White reportedly sings and plays guitar in the film, which you can hear a bit of at the end of the trailer when he belts “Born to Run” with Springsteen’s famous “wall of sound” behind him. The actor also spent a lot of time with Springsteen to nail the part. “I’ve got a really talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to get ready for this thing,” White told Variety last June. “I’m also really lucky [that] Bruce is really supportive of the film, and so I’ve had some access to him and he’s just the greatest guy.” In a separate interview this January, the Boss told Sirius XM’s “E Street Radio” that “Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it.” He praised White’s singing as well, calling the film “very exciting.”

The main bit of the trailer centers on a flimsy, extended metaphor about Springsteen’s broken past—born out of a troubled relationship with his father. According to a character via voice-over, Springsteen grew up with “a hole in the floor of his bedroom” in New Jersey. “The floor, it’s supposed to be solid,” the voice continues, explaining how floors work. “You’re supposed to be able to stand on it. Bruce didn’t have that. He’s a repairman. And what he’s doing with this album is he’s repairing that hole in the floor.”

Viewers can also catch a glimpse of White purchasing a car, looking at old photographs, shadowboxing his father, and even riding the merry-go-round at Asbury Park.

In 2018, after the second running of Springsteen’s one-man show on Broadway, the singer told Esquire that the merry-go-round was his good-luck charm. “It had an arm and on the end of it there was a gold ring,” he said. “If you caught it, you got a free ride. I used to go nuts because I could never reach these rings. I rode it a thousand times. But then one night before I was about to put my first record out—I can remember the night... I got on the merry-go-round and bing! I grabbed the gold one.”

Audiences will find out if the latest music biopic can grab the gold one when Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere arrives in theaters October 24.