‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ director says movie includes “new information” about Bruce Springsteen
Scott Cooper, the director of the new Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, has promised the film includes “new information” about the legendary singer-songwriter.
The upcoming movie, which is set to be shown at the New York Film Festival later this month, is based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 book of the same name. Deliver Me From Nowhere tells the story of how Springsteen hibernated in isolation to produce his 1982 masterpiece, Nebraska, while grappling emotionally with his position on the brink of superstardom.
Rather than trying to explore the full breadth of Springsteen’s career into one film, it instead promises to provide a snapshot into one particular album and delve into immense detail regarding the intriguing process.
Now, in a new interview with Empire, Cooper shared of Deliver Me From Nowhere, “There’ll be things in this film that will be new information to even Bruce’s most ardent fans — not covered in his Broadway show, or in documentaries, or in his memoir.”
The director continued, “And he never once asked me to sand off the rough edges. But would you expect anything else from Bruce Springsteen? This man who’s the reluctant moral conscience of America?”
In late August, Deliver Me From Nowhere received its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, which was followed by a discussion between Springsteen, Jeremy Allen White, who plays him in the film, Cooper, and Springsteen’s manager, Jon Laundau.
During the event, Springsteen said that “what brought this one along” compared to other biopic ideas in the past is “was that I think we had a very specific idea — Scott (Cooper) had a very specific idea, particularly, of what we were gonna attempt to do. And, for lack of a better word, it was an anti-biopic.”
He then explained why he doesn’t view it as a biopic, adding, “You know, it’s really not a biopic — it just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32 and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record (Nebraska), and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know. And, I’m old and I don’t give a fuck what I do now.”
Deliver Me From Nowhere is set for cinematic release on October 24th, 2025.
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