Well, it turns out that Hulu and Disney Plus are Born to Run .
After the success of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) and The Beatles: Get Back , Disney’s streaming services are getting a documentary flick from The Boss. Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will land on both Hulu and Disney Plus in October 2024 – an exact premiere date will be shared closer to launch.
The forthcoming flick will take viewers behind the scenes of The Boss’s 2023-2024 world tour, all the way back to its inception as Springsteen and the E Street Band shape the show and prep for the tour. Road Diary promises to offer glimpses of the first rehearsals in Red Bank, New Jersey, as well as high-res footage from concerts and behind-the-scenes moments.
You’ll also hear from Springsteen himself, and band members, discussing the rehearsal process, the live experience, and “how they keep the magic of The E Street Band as potent as ever.” The film will also pair modern concert moments with archival footage.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Image credit: Disney/Photo by Rob DeMartin)
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was directed by Thom Zimny, who has worked with Springsteen several times – including for Western Stars and Springsteen on Broadway – and is both an Emmy and Grammy winner. Producers for the film include Springsteen himself, Jon Landau, Adrienne Gerard, and Sean Stuart.
The film itself is a welcome addition to Springsteen’s autobiography Born to Run , as well as the Springsteen on Broadway , Western Stars , and Letter to You films. For fans of Springsteen, it will pull behind the curtain of how the setlist is shaped – and maybe how the band is so skilled at handling Springsteen’s off-the-cuff changes to the playlist and interactions with the crowd – as well as the themes encompassing the tour and a true look at the creative process.
Seeing glimpses of rehearsals, how song arrangements are produced, and more spur-of-the-moment at-venue decisions is especially exciting. The news of this documentary comes as the band wraps a United States leg that featured 60 different songs across 11 shows, and kicks off a 25-show run in Europe. It’s unclear if we’ll see moments from these last few shows, including what was by all accounts a particularly epic opening night in Cardiff, Wales. Still, given that it’s set to stream in October and a trailer has not yet been released, more recent footage could be incorporated.
From a streaming service perspective, this will be the first appearance of a Springsteen film on Disney+ and Hulu. Springsteen on Broadway dropped on Netflix in December 2018, and Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You premiered in 2020 on Apple TV Plus . Western Stars did get a theatrical release, but is not currently on a streaming service.
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