Johnny Cannizzaro To Star As Stevie Van Zandt In 20th’s Bruce Springsteen Biopic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Cannizzaro (Jersey Boys) has joined the ensemble cast of 20th Century‘s Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere. The New Jersey native will portray Springsteen’s long-time confidant and E-Street band guitarist, Stevie Van Zandt, sources close to production tell Deadline.

Cannizzaro will star opposite The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White who will bring “The Boss” to life in the feature film from director Scott Cooper. Odessa Young, Paul Walter Hauser and Harrison Sloan Gilbertson also star. Production is set to kick off in early fall.

Deliver 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 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.

Scott Stuber, in his first project since exiting as longtime Netflix Film head, is producing alongside of Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson, and Copper Zanes. Springsteen and his manager Jon Landau are also closely involved in the project.

Cannizzaro’s credits include the Charlotte Lubert-directed film My House in the role of Charlie Chaplin and Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys as Nick DeVito. He has also made TV appearances 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 Bicoastal Management.