“Deliver Me From Nowhere,” a biographical music drama starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, has been added to the New York Film Festival lineup.
Set as the Spotlight Gala selection, the movie will screen on Sept. 28 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Springsteen will attend the premiere along with White’s co-stars Jeremy Strong and Odessa Young. “Deliver Me From Nowhere” will host its world premiere elsewhere at an earlier date.
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Adapted from the biography by Warren Zanes, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” is set at an early ’80s crossroads in Springsteen’s career when he was rising to fame while crafting the personal acoustic songs for the 1982 album “Nebraska.” At the same time, he was recording the demos for “Born in the U.S.A.” — the hit that would catapult him to global stardom. Strong portrays Jon Landau, Springsteen’s manager and record producer, and Young plays the love interest of the Boss.
“The New York Film Festival has always felt like a spiritual home for the kind of cinema I believe in,” said the film’s director Scott Cooper. “To now arrive with a film about Bruce Springsteen — an artist whose music shaped not just a country but my own sense of storytelling — is something I could never have imagined. Getting to know Bruce, to explore his world and his spirit, has been one of the most profound creative experiences of my life. To share that experience with New York audiences, in a city that defines artistic possibility, is both an honor and a responsibility I hold with deep gratitude.”
New York Film Festival’s artistic director Dennis Lim called the movie a “fitting tribute to a living legend.”
“Taking its cue from the stark majesty of Bruce Springsteen’s classic album Nebraska, Scott Cooper’s ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ has an intimacy and immediacy that eludes most film biographies,” Lim said.
As previously announced, New York Film Festival will open on Sept. 26 with Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt.” Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” has been set as the centerpiece, while Bradley Cooper‘s dramatic comedy “Is This Thing On?” is the festival’s closing night film.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated that “Deliver Me From Nowhere” will world premiere at NYFF. The film will world premiere elsewhere.
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