Jeremy Strong may be playing the man behind The Boss in Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen-centric film to star Jeremy Allen White. Strong is in talks to play Springsteen’s longtime manager, Jon Landau, in the Scott Cooper feature, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The film revolves around the making of Springsteen’s classic 1982 album Nebraska.
The 20th Century and Disney movie based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes.
Strong is coming off playing Kendall Roy, the eldest son of Logan Roy, in the hit HBO drama Succession, as well as playing Roy Cohn alongside Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice, which will premiere in Cannes.
Deliver Me From Nowhere explores the making of Nebraska, which is considered to be one the greatest albums of all time, per critics and music aficionados. The album followed the singer-songwriter’s huge The River album. Nebraska had the trademark blue-collar vibe of many other Springsteen albums, but this was also full of bleak and hopeless themes, accompanied by a sparse instruments.
The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner trilogy) and Eric Robinson are producing the biopic about the New Jersey native, 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.
Variety was first to report on Strong’s talks around joining Nowhere.
