Netflix And Higher Ground Productions Present Worth Starring Michael Keaton

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Netflix And Higher Ground Productions Present Worth Starring Michael Keaton

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17 February 2021

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Netflix has acquired Worth in the US, Canada, Latin America, Australia, the UK, France, Turkey and select other countries

Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, will present the film, alongside Netflix

The film is based on Kenneth Feinbergs memoir entitled What Is Life Worth

Cast: 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.

Director: Sara Colangelo (The Kindergarten Teacher)

Screenwriter: Max Borenstein (Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters, Godzilla V. Kong, Untitled Lakers Project for HBO)

Borenstein's original script was featured in the 2008 Black List

Producers: 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

Worth was co-financed by Ingenious Media, Paradise City Films, West Madison Entertainment and Riverstone Pictures

Logline: 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.

Netflix will release the film in September 2021, the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

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