Here’s the trailer. It’s now called “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.” They just had to add the “Springsteen” in the title. Too tacky for my tastes.
Scott Cooper has directed a biopic tackling legendary singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and the tumultuous events surrounding the recording of his 1982 landmark album, “Nebraska.”
Deliver Me From Nowhere’ stars Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser and Stephen Graham. It’s being positioned by 20th Century as an awards contender, having set up an October 24, 2025 release date. It’ll most likely screen this fall at Telluride and TIFF.
The “Nebraska” story might just be the most fascinating time period of Springsteen’s career. During that time, the singer was going through a severe bout of depression and anxiety — he just didn’t know it. He created art through it, battling his inner demons by recording the spooky “Nebraska” tracks with a home recorder, alone in a bedroom, a “matter of months from a breakdown.”
In his memoir “Born to Run,” Springsteen writes of that time: “My depression is spewing like an oil spill …Its black sludge is threatening to smother every last living part of me.”
The film is based off of Warren Zanes’ excellent “Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska,” an incredible book that tried to enter itself deep inside the mind of Springsteen as he was battling his inner demons and recording his masterpiece.
So it goes, one of the outtakes that emanated from the Nebraska bedroom sessions turned out to be a song called “Born in the USA.” A few years later, Springsteen would go on to re-record it, in a proper studio, with the E-Street Band, and the rest is the stuff of rock and roll history.
Cooper is coming off 2022’s Edgar Allen Poe Film, “The Pale Blue Eye.” His other directing credits include “Crazy Heart,” “Black Mass,” “Hostiles,” and “Out of the Furnace” — coincidentally, or not, Cooper admitted he was obsessively listening to “Nebraska” while writing ‘Furnace.’
