Following a strong Telluride debut, 20th Century Studios released a new trailer for Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the feature about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. The film currently holds a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie traces a pivotal stretch in Springsteen’s life and work, when he recorded Nebraska on a four-track machine in his New Jersey bedroom. The result was a stark acoustic record populated by drifters and strivers, a project that reshaped his career and creative voice.
“Nebraska is where Bruce chose truth over expectation, a choice that still reverberates through everything he’s written since,” Cooper said. “At that crossroads, he could have chased the bright lights and the roar of arenas, but instead he turned inward, armed only with silence, a four track recorder, and the courage to confront himself. For him to trust me with telling that story, the most vulnerable chapter of his life, is the greatest honor I’ve ever had as a filmmaker.” Take a look at the trailer below:
“This film takes a couple years out of my life and looks at them very closely, a time when I made [Nebraska] and went through some personal difficulties,” Springsteen said. “I’m so appreciative of Jeremy Allen White and the entire cast for their wonderful and moving performances, and Scott Cooper, one of the most generous collaborators I’ve ever worked with.”
Jeremy Allen White stars as Springsteen. Cooper directs from his adaptation of Warren Zanes’ book. The cast includes Jeremy Strong as longtime manager Jon Landau, Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan, Odessa Young as Faye, Stephen Graham as Bruce’s father Doug, Gaby Hoffman as his mother Adele, and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive Al Teller.
Producers are Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith Vein, Eric Robinson, and Scott Stuber, with Tracey Landon, Jon F. Vein, and Zanes as executive producers. The film features an original score by Jeremiah Fraites, cinematography by Masanobu Takayanagi, production design by Stefania Cella, costumes by Kasia Walicka Maimone, and editing by Pamela Martin.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens in theaters Friday, October 24.
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