Bruce Springsteen Spent Years Saying No to Movies — Until the ‘Deliver Me from Nowhere’ Team Got Him to Say Yes

Bogdan Hofbauer

Producers Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein tell IndieWire about how they built a package as strong as possible before author Warren Zanes agreed to approach The Boss and his manager Jon Landau. A big part of Bruce Springsteen manager Jon Landau’s job is to say no to things. As “ Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere ” producer Eric Robinson describes, he has spent his career being a “force field” for The Boss, deflecting countless attempts over the years to fictionalize Springsteen’s story