Scott Cooper’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White will make its world premiere as the Spotlight Gala selection of the New York Film Festival on September 28, with the Boss in attendance.
“White inhabits a legend and lays bare his beating heart in this graceful, exceptionally moving film about a very specific part of peerless American rock icon Bruce Springsteen ’s life,” the fest says of Cooper’s film, adapted from Warren Zanes’s 2023 best-selling ‘Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.’
It’s set at an early-’80s crossroads in Springsteen’s career when, still negotiating the transformative waves of his rising fame, he crafted the intensely personal acoustic songs that would become his mythic album Nebraska — a