Jeremy Allen White Confirmed for New Bruce Springsteen Film
Jeremy Allen White will be playing Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming film Deliver Me From Nowhere.
Deadline confirmed this news along with confirming the film will be distributed by 20th Century Studios. Weeks ago, when news of White being attached to the film initially surfaced, A24 was in talks for distributing the film, but clearly those talks took a turn.
As previously reported, the film is about the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. This film will be an adaptation of the 2023 book Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes.
White, of course, is best known for his role as Carmy Berzatto in the FX series The Bear. The role has netted him a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and an Emmy Award this past awards season.
A production and release timeline for Deliver Me From Nowhere is not currently known.
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Jeremy Allen White attends The Walt Disney Company Emmy Awards Party at Otium on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
The Other Bruce Springsteen Film
News of Deliver Me From Nowhere comes five years after the release of another Springsteen film.
Released in 2019 was Blinded By The Light. The film tells the story of Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up in England in 1987 amidst racial and economic turmoil. Javed is passionate about poetry and then his passion is turned upside down when a classmate introduces him to the music of The Boss.
Blinded By The Light was based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir Greetings from Bury Park and comes from writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha, best known for 2002’s Bend It Like Beckham.
Manzoor told us in an August 2019 interview that Springsteen not only gave his blessing in the making of the film, but he let the small-budget film use his music in the film for free.
“He’s given 19 songs…He’s given the most valuable thing he has with his back catalog to a story about a Pakistani teenager in England in the 1980s,” said Manzoor. “Think about how much he could sell his music for; he gave it to us for nothing. It’s a British Independent film. We didn’t have a studio backing us. It was just a small-budget film, and he basically said you can have the entire back catalog.”