Any project about Bruce Springsteen is going to be focused on the rock ‘n’ roll icon’s native stomping grounds in New Jersey.
But there’s some Michigan to be found in the new film, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” director/screenwriter Scott Cooper’s adaptation of Warren Zanes’ 2023 book of the same name.
Among those is Paul Walter Hauser, a Grand Rapids native who was raised in Saginaw and starred in “Richard Jewell” and TV’s “Black Bird,” among other credits. He portrays Springsteen’s assistant and the recording engineer for the solo, lo-fi home recording sessions that led to the “Nebraska” album that the film chronicles.
On the musical side, meanwhile, brothers Jake and Sam Kiszka from Frankenmuth-formed Greta Van Fleet appear as part of the house band at the Stone Pony in Asb

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