In a new trailer for the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, Springsteen, played by Jeremy Allen White, is exploring his next career move. The Scott Cooper-directed biopic, which focuses on the musician’s search for a big hit and bold career pivot to acoustic folk music on his Nebraska album, arrives in theaters on Oct. 24.
The new clip begins with Springsteen noting, “It’s a hard thing, realizing people aren’t who you want them to be.” The next scene shows him speaking with Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong) at a diner about his next career move, with Landau later opining to someone else, “I think Bruce is afraid of what’s coming, and he feels guilty leaving behind the world he knows.”
The rest of the scene-setting trailer consists of a rapid-fire montage of Springsteen performing and interacting with the friends and lovers he meets along his musical journey. Toward the end of the clip, scored by Springsteen’s “Atlantic City,” Columbia Records executive Al Teller (David Krumholtz) tells Landau that pivoting to folk is a “highly unorthodox career move,” but Landau supports it. In the trailer’s final scene, Springsteen notes, “Don’t need to be perfect, I just want it to feel right.”
Alongside White, Strong, and Krumholtz, Deliver Me From Nowhere also stars Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gabby Hoffman, and Marc Maron. Cooper adapted the script from Warren Zane’s 2023 book of the same name.
“Making Springsteen was deeply moving as 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,” Cooper said in a previous statement.
The director added, “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.”
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