Jeremy Allen White channels Bruce Springsteen in the first trailer for “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” a 20th Century Studios biopic exploring the creation of Springsteen’s stark 1982 album Nebraska. The film follows a young Springsteen wrestling with sudden fame and lingering childhood shadows while recording onto a four-track in his New Jersey bedroom—an intimate process that produced one of his most haunting records.

The trailer, released June 18, opens on Springsteen debating whether to buy a new car. A salesman claims to recognize him; Springsteen replies, “Well, that makes one of us,” setting the story’s restless tone. Moments later, the singer sits with a guitar as an engineer adjusts levels. “It don’t need to be perfect,” he insists. “I want it to feel like I’m in the room by myself.”

Jeremy Strong, front left, and Jeremy Allen White, centre.

Springsteen’s longtime manager Jon Landau, portrayed by Jeremy Strong, appears in a label office urging executives to back the raw songs: “This isn’t about charts. This is about Bruce Springsteen—and these are the songs he wants to work on right now.” Quick cuts show Springsteen on a deserted beach, leafing through old photographs, and a black-and-white flashback of a boy sparring with his father while a voiceover recalls the literal hole in Bruce’s bedroom floor. “He’s repairing that hole in himself,” the narrator says. “And once he’s done, he’s going to repair the entire world.”

The montage crescendos with Springsteen in the studio and onstage belting “Born to Run,” followed by his own reflection: “I’m trying to find something in all them worries.” The clip ends on a surge of harmonica and guitar.

White has said he will attempt to sing in the film, and Springsteen has already endorsed the casting. Directed by Scott Cooper and adapted from Warren Zanes’s book Deliver Me From Nowhere, the movie features a cast that includes Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gaby Hoffman, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz. “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” arrives in theaters on October 24.