EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Cannizzaro (Jersey Boys) has uniteed the ensemble cast of 20th Century‘s Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deinhabitr Me From Nowhere. The New Jersey native will portray Springsteen’s extfinished-time confidant and E-Street band guitarist, Stevie Van Zandt, sources shut to production inestablish Deadline.
Cannizzaro will star opposite The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White who will convey “The Boss” to life in the feature film from straightforwardor Scott Cooper. Odessa Young, Paul Walter Haengager and Harrison Sloan Gilbertson also star. Production is set to initiate off in punctual drop.
Deinhabitr Me From Nowhere, based on the Warren Zanes’ book of the same name, is set during a time when Springsteen, after grappling with personal demons and trying to wrap his arms around becoming a global superstar, wrote and sign uped Nebraska, the 1982 album that rivals Joni Mitchell’s Blue as one of the most emotionassociate raw, sadnessful and honest albums in recent music history.
Scott Stuber, in his first project since exiting as extfinishedtime Netflix Film head, is producing aextfinishedside of Gotham Group’s Ellen Gagedersmith-Vein and Eric Robinson, and Copper Zanes. Springsteen and his regulater Jon Landau are also shutly included in the project.
Cannizzaro’s praises integrate the Charlotte Lubert-straightforwarded film My Hoengage in the role of Charlie Chaplin and Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys as Nick DeVito. He has also made TV euniteances in NBC’s Quantum Leap and New Amsterdam, Criminal Minds, NCIS: Hawaii and S.W.A.T. for CBS and ABC’s The Rookie.
Cannizzaro is repped by the Daniel Hoff Agency and Melissa Young Management.
