{"id":980836,"date":"2025-10-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980836"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:37:28","slug":"bruce-springsteen-title-hit-song-paul-schrader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/bruce-springsteen-title-hit-song-paul-schrader\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bruce Springsteen Stole the Title of His Hit Song From Paul Schrader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These days, when maverick director Paul Schrader talks about pop music, he’s usually praising Taylor Swift as “the light that gives meaning to our lives<\/a>.” But back in the early ’80s, Schrader had the Boss on his mind. And in a new conversation with Deadline<\/em><\/a>, Schrader reveals how an aborted movie project starring Bruce Springsteen led the pride of New Jersey to swipe from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the story, Schrader wanted to make a movie about blue collar rock and roll bands, something very much in line with his directorial debut Blue Collar<\/em>, and thought of Springsteen as the lead. “There was a moment there when Bruce was being courted by the studios. Paramount<\/a> had it, and they would have given anything to star him in a movie,” Schrader recalled. “I met with and gave the script to [Springsteen’s manager Jon] Landau, and he got back about a month later and said, ‘Bruce has been thinking about it and he\u2019s not going to be in movies. He thinks it\u2019s a trap and that he\u2019ll end up like Elvis.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t