Jeremy Allen White to play Bruce Springsteen in new Nebraska film

Jeremy Allen White, best known for his role in the recent Emmy-winning series The Bear, has been cast as Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming film Deliver Me From Nowhere which is produced by 20th Century and Disney.

Scott Cooper, who treaded into music territory with his debut Crazy Heart, will write and direct the feature that will be based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes.

Grappling with personal demons and trying to wrap his arms around becoming a global superstar, Springsteen wrote and recorded Nebraska, the 1982 album that rivals Joni Mitchell’s Blue as one of the most emotionally raw, dark and honest albums in recent music history.

The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner trilogy) and Eric Robinson are producing along with Cooper and Zanes. Scott Stuber is also producing, marking the first project for the former Netflix film head since he left the streamer in March.

Meanwhile White is expected to finish shooting for season 4 of The Bear in June. He earned his first Emmy for his performance as a burnt-out award-winning New York City chef, Carmen, who returns to his home in Chicago to look after his family's sandwich shop after his brother dies.