After Freddie Mercury, James Brown, Elton John, Elvis, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston, Hollywood is embarking on a new biopic musical ready to sweep the awards season. This time it is Bruce Springsteen’s turn, who will put his face on Deliver Me From Nowhere Jeremy Allen White, actor known for his role in The Bear. Scott Cooper’s filmrebel heart) will not, however, follow the usual paths of a standard biography in which all the milestones in the life of a musician are reviewed, but will focus on the recording of the album Nebraska in 1982, as narrated by writer Warren Zanes. For now, what his first official image shows is that the resemblance is more than obvious, thanks to a haircut and brown contact lenses. The premiere is scheduled for 2025.
The project, like so many current productions of this type, has the approval of the New Jersey singer himself, who in return has released the documentary on Disney+ Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Road Diaries this same week. “The album’s raw and unambiguous portrayal of life’s hardships and resilience moves me deeply. “The purpose of our film is to capture that same spirit, bringing Zanes’s captivating narrative of Bruce’s life to the screen with authenticity and hope, an homage to Bruce’s legacy that becomes a transformative cinematic experience,” explains the director about his vision in Disney’s statement announcing the start of filming.
Bruce Springsteen recorded Nebraska locked in a house, with a four-track recorder in his bedroom and without The E Street Band. On the album he told the story of raw and violent characters in an acoustic that transformed, by style and theme, a very peculiar and unique work. Only years later did Springsteen openly recount that pivotal moment in his life. In the cast, they will accompany Allen White as the Boss Jeremy Strong (de Succession) as Jon Landau, the singer’s mentor and manager; Paul Walter Hauser, and Odessa Young. Johnny Cannizzaro will be the famous Steven Van Zandt, a member of his band and future secondary of The Sopranos.
Biographies about musicians are one of the most buoyant subgenres in today’s Hollywood, which is preparing a fiction about the life of Michael Jackson, starring his nephew Jaafar Jackson; four films for each of the Beatles, directed by Sam Mendes, or The piano manaround Billy Joel’s career. Later this year, Disney, which also produces Springsteen’s project, will release A Complete Unknownin which Timothée Chalamet transforms, with face and voice, into Bob Dylan, ready to fight for the Oscar, always so eager to reward imitations of real figures. Given their abundance on the billboard, singers are almost the new superheroes of cinema.