Shameless actor Jeremy Allen White is turning heads with his uncanny portrayal of rock legend Bruce Springsteen in the new trailer for the movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.
20th Century Studios released the trailer for the biopic on its YouTube page on Wednesday, June 18, where it quickly racked up more than 139,000 views.
“Heard about this project, shrugged. Then saw this trailer, goosebumps,” a fan wrote on the studio’s comment thread. Other fans were similarly impressed.
“Well, that trailer got me, the veins popping eyes bulging intensity of The Boss live, plus the heart and hunger that drives him, all perfectly captured in this trailer, looks very promising,” wrote another fan.
According to the studio, the movie will be in theaters on Oct. 24.
“I do know who you are,” a car salesman says to White-as-Springsteen at the beginning of the movie trailer.
“That makes one of us,” the Springsteen character says, revealing that the film will explore Springsteen’s inner life, fame, and music.
“I want it to feel like I’m in the room by myself,” he says in the trailer, referring to his music.
The trailer shows Springsteen as a child, with a love interest, and making music.
Springsteen’s music was an attempt to “repair that hole in himself. And once he’s done that, he’s going to repair the entire world,” the narrator says.
The movie trailer ends with Springsteen’s character playing his iconic classic Born to Run.
The film “chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past,” the studio wrote on YouTube.
“Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe,” it adds.
Succession’s Jeremy Strong plays Springsteen’s manager, and Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper directs.
“The cast is stacked. White, Strong, Graham. I’m in,” wrote another fan on the YouTube thread.
“Sold. I can already tell Jeremy Allen will get Oscar-nominated for this role,” another chimed in.
