Jeremy Allen White in Talks to Play Bruce Springsteen in New Film
Jeremy Allen White is in talks to play Bruce Springsteen in a new film.
According to Variety, the film is about the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. This film will be an adaptation of the 2023 book Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes.
Little has been finalized about the film. However, there are reports that A24, the critically acclaimed film company with a strong fan following, is also in talks to be involved with the film.
If White is cast as Springsteen and A24 is involved, it’ll be his second film with the company following his turn as Kerry Von Erich in The Iron Claw.
White, of course, is best known for his role as Carmy Berzatto in the FX series The Bear. The role has netted him a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and an Emmy Award this past awards season.
Jeremy Allen White attends The Walt Disney Company Emmy Awards Party at Otium on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
The Other Bruce Springsteen Film
If this film about the making of Nebraska becomes a reality, it will join the ranks of another Springsteen movie.
Released in 2019 was Blinded By The Light. The film tells the story of Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up in England in 1987 amidst racial and economic turmoil. Javed is passionate about poetry and then his passion is turned upside down when a classmate introduces him to the music of The Boss.
Blinded By The Light was based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir Greetings from Bury Park and comes from writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha, best known for 2002’s Bend It Like Beckham.
Manzoor told us in an August 2019 interview that Springsteen not only gave his blessing in the making of the film, but he let the small-budget film use his music in the film for free.
“He’s given 19 songs…He’s given the most valuable thing he has with his back-catalog to a story about a Pakistani teenager in England in the 1980s,” said Manzoor. “Think about how much he could sell his music for; he gave it to us for nothing. It’s a British Independent film. We didn’t have a studio backing us. It was just a small budget film, and he basically said you can have the entire back catalog.”
