TRENDING NEWS ENTERTAINME NT FOOD & DRINK PETS SHOPPING HEAL THY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MOREEverything We Know About e Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska" Movie The story behind Bruce Springsteen's greatest album will be told in a new drama MICHAEL GILTZ •UPDATED: MAR 28, 2024 Parade aims to feature only the best products and services.</p><p> If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.</p><p> Unlike Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen has never starred in a movie.</p><p> But just like Elvis, Hollywood is making a movie about the Boss.</p><p> Called Deliver Me From Nowhere, the proposed lm will likely star Jeremy Allen White of TV’s The Bear and is based on the non ction book of the same name by Warren Zanes.</p><p> The breaking news was rst reported by Deadline H ollywood.</p><p> We don’t know if White can sing, but he’s certainly got the moves: White grew up danc ing jazz, ballet and tap.</p><p> And he’s not from Jersey, but hey, Brooklyn ain’t so far away.</p><p> In the early 1980s, Springsteen staggered under the weight of expectation created by his double album The River and his rst Top 10 hit, “Hungry Heart.” (Written originally for the Ramones!) Springsteen had his biggest audience y et, but instead of writing more anthems for the sunny, optimistic years of President Reagan, Springsteen delivered his stark masterpiece Nebraska.</p><p> Then and only then did he feel free to grab the brass ring of superstardom with Born In The USA, one of the best-selling album s of all time.</p><p> Now, a new movie is taking shape to tell that story of struggle and artistic triumph.</p><p> It is pitched to red-hot indie A24, the company behind the Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All At Once, the Zac Efron wrestling hit The Iron Claw and yes, Priscilla, So a Coppola’s movie that focuses on Elvis’s wife.</p><p> Springsteen approves and will be involved, since making a lm would be impossible without Springsteen granting the rights to his music.</p><p> Discover e Books Behind Springsteen's Classic Alb um "Nebraska" Want to get ready for the movie? You’re in luck! A lot of great books will prepare you for it.</p><p> Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making Of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes ; $28, Crown Bruce Springsteen delivered big albums, from the Spectorian grandeur of Born To Run to the Oedip al rage of Darkness On The Edge Of Town to the sprawling garage rock maturity of The River and the world-beating Born In The USA.</p><p> But most of his hardcore fans agree the spare, haunting home dem os of Nebraska make up the single best album of his career.</p><p> Warren Zanes tells the story of its di cult birth and how delivering it freed Springsteen to conquer the world.</p><p> Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen; $20.99, Simon & Schuster Springsteen tells his own story for a change, and not just in song.</p><p> If you missed out on seeing him on Broadway, never fear.</p><p> Bruce opens up here at expansive length and best of all you can go back, savor the details, laugh at his travails, marvel at the empathy, appreciate the openness about struggling with depression…and then read it all over again.</p><p> Reneg ades : Born In The USA by Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen; $50, Crown Two legends go head to head.</p><p> Building on their podcast, the Boss and the President share stories, prod each other, tackle race and its tangled relationship to the American story and so much more.</p><p> They bring out the best in each other.</p><p> A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn; $22.99, Harper Perennial Modern Classics Fans know to pay attention to what Springsteen is reading.</p><p> The books he devours will often in uence the songs he writes.</p><p> When Bruce was creating Nebraska, he was soaking up Howard Zinn’s radical reimagining of our history.</p><p> Instead of the story of great men and their doings, Zinn focused on the workers toiling away at factories, the Native Americans brutally shunted aside, the women who made a space for themselves because no one else was going to do it for them.</p><p> Springsteen always had a soft spot for the underdog and the forgotten.</p><p> But Zinn helped Bruce trade in his starry romanticism for clear-eyed reality.</p><p> The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O’Conner; $20, Farrar, Straus and Girous Another writer that in uenced Springsteen was Flannery O’Connor.</p><p> You can hear the thrum of violence threatening to break out in many of her short stories.</p><p> Springsteen was devouring them at the time and you can even hear nods to some of her best stories in his lyrics.</p><p> Surely O’Conner would have appreciated Springsteen’s turn of phrase when he said a family of modest means was buying a “brand new used car.” Badlands directed by Terence Malick; $39.95, Criterion BluRay Another big in uence on the album was director Terrence Malick’s brilliant 1973 debut lm Badlands , starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.</p><p> It ctionalized the murder spree of Charles Starkweather, a story and bleak perspective Springsteen drew upon in various ways on the album , especially the opening title track, which is told from Starkweather’s point of view.</p><p> Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen; $23.99 vinyl, Legacy Recordings Needles s to say, you must to listen to Nebraska.</p><p> Ten songs.</p><p> All of them very good to great.</p><p> A classic.</p><p> The black and white cover image lets you know this isn’t a party record.</p><p> But it has moments of black humor, humanity and the courage to see life as it is.</p><p> That may not make for a party, but it’s worth celebrating.</p><p> Content continues below The Boss Courtesy Columbia Records Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Content continues below Sponsored Stories Here Are 23 of Coolest Gifts for This 20 24 23 Insanely Cool Gadgets You'll Regret Not Getting Before They Sell Out Trending Gadgets | SponsoredFresh So urdough Starter Where else can you nd FRESH sourdough starter - not dried? 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