Jeremy Allen White Transforms Into Bruce Springsteen In ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ – CinemaCon

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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.