20th Century Studios’ upcoming feature Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere pulls back the curtain on the haunting, stripped-down masterpiece that is Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album, Nebraska. At once deeply intimate and unsettlingly stark, Nebraska was recorded not in a studio, but in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom on a humble 4-track recorder. The result? A raw, confessional record teeming with ghosts, grit, and the weight of American loneliness—a sound unlike anything Springsteen had made before or since.
Now, acclaimed director and screenwriter Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Hostiles) brings this defining chapter of music history vividly to life, adapting Warren Zanes’ celebrated book “Deliver Me from Nowhere” into a gripping cinematic exploration of a young artist caught at a crossroads. Jeremy Allen White (The Iron Claw, “The Bear”) anchors the film with a portrayal of Bruce Springsteen that — based on the brand-new trailer — appears to perfectly capture the raw intensity and vulnerability behind the legend.
“Making Springsteen was deeply moving,” says Cooper. “It allowed me to step inside the soul of an artist I’ve long admired – and to witness, up close, the vulnerability and strength behind his music. The experience felt like a journey through memory, myth, and truth. And more than anything, it was a privilege to translate that raw emotional honesty to the screen, and in doing so, it changed me. I cannot thank Bruce and Jon Landau enough for allowing me to tell their story.”
Set against the backdrop of early-’80s America — a nation wrestling with its own identity — the film captures Springsteen caught in the uneasy limbo between breakout fame and personal reckoning. As he wrestles with the emotional aftermath of The River and the looming specter of Born in the U.S.A., Nebraska becomes both a retreat and a revelation.
Rounding out the cast is Jeremy Strong as longtime manager and mentor Jon Landau, with Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gaby Hoffman, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz all lending their talents to breathe life into the story behind the music.
Produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, and Scott Stuber, with executive production from Tracey Landon, Jon Vein, and Zanes, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere will release exclusively in theaters this October 24, 2025.
