Well, will you look at that. Before The Bear roars back to screens with its fourth season, Jeremy Allen White is already making us swoon with his other upcoming venture. No, it’s not another jaw-dropping set of Calvin Klein adverts—it is, in fact, the first trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the upcoming biopic in which he’ll be playing music legend Bruce Springsteen during his younger years. With the swept hair, leather jacket and plaid shirt, it has to be said… Jeremy looks a dead ringer.
All of this has happened fairly quickly. On 26 March 2024, Deadline reported that the Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Critics’ Choice Award winner was in talks to play Springsteen in a new film about the making of the Oscar winner and 20-time Grammy recipient’s 1982 album Nebraska. The musician was battling with depression when he penned the seminal record—which features the songs ‘Atlantic City’, ‘Johnny 99’ and ‘Highway Patrolman’, alongside the title track—pouring his complicated emotions into what is now remembered as his most raw, and to some his best, collection of tracks.
In the process of dealing with his newfound fame following the success of Born To Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River, Springsteen recorded the new songs with a simple four-track recorder alone in the bedroom of a house he was renting in New Jersey, originally not intending to turn it into an album. It was met with critical acclaim and paved the way for his next release, the era-defining Born in the USA. Springsteen himself is actively involved in the project, with the film being an adaptation of Warren Zanes’s 2023 book about the period, Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’.
Joining Jeremy as The Boss? Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau; Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan; Stephen Graham as Bruce’s father, Doug; Gaby Hoffmann as his mother, Adele; Odessa Young as his love interest, Faye; Marc Maron as record producer Chuck Plotkin; and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive Al Teller, all under the expert direction of Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper.
And, startlingly, the release date isn’t that far off either: 24 October 2025, when the film will hit the big screen and have us all listening to Springsteen on repeat yet again.
This article was first published on British Vogue.
