Global streaming giant Netflix has acquired the rights for ‘Worth’, a film based on Kenneth Feinberg‘s memoir entitled “What Is Life Worth”. The rights have been bought for US, Canada, Latin America, Australia, the UK, France, Turkey and select other countries.
Directed by Sara Colangelo (‘The Kindergarten Teacher’), Netflix will present ‘Worth’ in association with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions.
Official logline for ‘Worth’ coming to Netflix in September 2021 reads, “The biopic follows Kenneth Feinberg (Keaton), an accomplished lawyer appointed Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, tasked by Congress to allocate financial compensation to the victims of the tragedy – to calculate incalculable loss in the face of cynicism, bureaucracy, and the politics of division.”
Academy Award nominee Michael Keaton (‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’, ‘Spotlight’, ‘Birdman’), Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci (‘The Devil Wears Prada’, ‘The Hunger Games’), Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (‘Gone Baby Gone’, ‘Lost Girls’) , Tate Donovan, Talia Balsam, and Laura Benanti form the ensemble cast of ‘Worth’.
Max Borenstein whose other credits include ‘Godzilla’, ‘Kong: Skull Island’, ‘Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters’, ‘Godzilla V. Kong’ and an untitled Lakers Project for HBO serves as Worth’s screenwriter. His original script was featured in the 2008 Black List.
‘Worth’ has been produced by MadRiver Pictures Marc Butan (‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′), Anthony Katagas for Keep Your Head (’12 Years a Slave’), Sugar23’s Michael Sugar (‘Spotlight’, ‘Dickinson’), Michael Keaton, Bard Dorros of Anonymous Content (‘Spotlight’, ‘True Detective’), Sean Sorensen for Royal Viking Entertainment (‘Black and Blue’) and Max Borenstein. Ingenious Media, Paradise City Films, West Madison Entertainment and Riverstone Pictures are the co-financers of the film.
‘Worth’ will premiere on Netflix in September 2021, the 20th anniversary of 9/11