"Let me tell you a little story..." - The first trailer for the first Springsteen biopic is here...
- Letters To You
- Jun 18
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 20
June 18, 2025
"Let me tell you a little story," says Jeremy Strong doing an excellent Jon Landau impersonation in the just-released trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (the full official title of the film, which will be released by 20th Century Studios on Friday, October 24th.) Overall, however, just how accurately and convincingly the story behind what led Bruce Springsteen to release Nebraska before Born in the U.S.A. will be portrayed... Well, that still remains to be seen, of course.
In any case, here's our first official and extensive taste of what to expect onscreen come late October. Okay; roll it:
The onscreen singing, incidentally, is being portrayed by a mix of Springsteen's vocals with those of Jeremy Allen White, who's playing the adult-rock-star version of Bruce in the film. This mixing of their vocals sounds at least somewhat jarring at times, as can be heard especially in the teaser-trailer released yesterday:
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere was written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper, based on the book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, by Warren Zanes. In addition to White as Springsteen and Strong as Landau, the film also features Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan, Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father Doug, Odessa Young as composited-though-fictionalized love interest Faye, Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mother Adele, Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin, and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive Al Teller. The film is produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, and Scott Stuber. Tracey Landon, Jon Vein, and Zanes are the film's executive producers.
