Jeremy Allen White of ‘The Bear’ to star as The Boss in new Bruce Springsteen film

Rumored for a while, the movie based on Warren Zanes’s book about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s acclaimed 1982 LP “Nebraska” is, in fact, happening.

Deadline reports that 20th Century Studios has a deal to finance and release “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” which takes its title from Zanes’s best-selling 2023 book about the spare, unsweetened album Springsteen (inset below) released two years before “Born in the U.S.A.”

Scott Cooper, who directed “Black Mass,” the Whitey Bulger movie based on the book by former Globe writers Gerry O’Neill and Dick Lehr, is writing and directing the film, and Jeremy Allen White, star of “The Bear,” is set to star as The Boss.

Zanes may be best known to some around here as the guitarist (with his brother Dan Zanes) in the ’80s Boston garage rock combo the Del Fuegos, but he’s had a varied and interesting life since the band broke up: He earned a PhD, served as a VP of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, released a couple of stellar solo records, and taught at New York University.

“Deliver Me from Nowhere” is not Zanes’s first book. He previously wrote a best-selling biography of Tom Petty, which was published two years before the singer died in 2017. Reached by email Wednesday, Zanes said he couldn’t yet talk about the movie project.

According to Deadline,

White (inset right) is expected to wrap work on the third season of “The Bear” in June and the Springsteen movie will begin filming in the fall, getting a global theatrical release after that, perhaps in 2025. It’s not clear where “Deliver Me from Nowhere” will be shot, but Springsteen wrote the songs on “Nebraska” in a small house in Colts Neck, N.J. (The legend of Bruce has its beginnings, or one of them, in Cambridge, where Jon Landau watched Springsteen perform at the Harvard Square Theater in 1974 and afterward, in the pages of the Real Paper, declared: “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”)

White isn’t the only one with the daunting task of playing a rock ‘’n’ roll hero on the big screen. Actor Timothée Chalamet is currently shooting director James Mangold’s, “A Complete Unknown,” a movie about a 19-year-old named Bob Dylan who was making his way in the New York City folk scene of the early 1960s.