The Boss rolled in to Caesars this afternoon — sort of. During Disney’s CinemaCon presentation, the first footage from 20th Century’s Deliver Me From Nowhere, the biopic based around the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, was screened.
Jeremy Allen White stars as the rock icon in the pic written and directed by Scott Cooper. Jeremy Strong play his manager Jon Landau. They took the stage with White calling the film “an incredible challenge and a dream come true. And I feel really lucky we all had Bruce’s blessing on this film.” It’s the story of a very particular moment in Bruce’s life when he was trying to reconcile the pressure of success and the ghosts of his past.”
“John was of course deeply invested In Bruce as an artist, but also has his friend’s happiness and well being, and his struggles with mental health. I see John as the Lewis to Bruce’s Clark.”
The first look moves between flashbacks of the The Boss’s sometimes traumatic childhood in black and white, with singing, songwriting and walking the beach, struggling to find himself, playing Born To Run to adoring fans.
“I do know who you are,” says Landau.
“That makes one of us,” replies Springsteen.
“Bruce is a repair man, and what he is doing with the song is repairing the hole in his floor that he holds in himself. And once he’s done that, he is gong to repair the entire world.”
Also starring are Harrison Sloan Gilbertson, Odessa Young, and Paul Walter Hauser.
Scott Stuber is producing with Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson.
Springsteen in January praised White’s portrayal of him, saying it was “a little [weird] at first” to see him on set. “But you get over that pretty quick,” he told SiriusXM’s E Street Radio of the experience. “And Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it. He’s got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognize. He’s just done a great job, so I’ve had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.”
