Barack and Michelle Obama have acquired the 9/11-themed movie
Worth, starring Michael Keaton, through their High Ground production company in partnership with Netflix, which will stream the movie later this year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Worth, which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to generally positive reviews, is based on Kenneth Feinberg’s non-fiction book
What Is Life Worth, which details the labyrinthine process of awarding compensation to the families of victims. Michael Keaton plays Feinberg, the attorney who leads the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
The movie co-stars Stanley Tucci, Amy Ryan, and Tate Donovan. Netflix said in press release that it will release the movie in September to mark 20 years since the 9/11 attacks.
$1.6 billion awarded to 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund in 2020, annual report shows
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An annual report released on Tuesday shows $1.6 billion was awarded last year.
More than 8,200 people were deemed eligible for compensation.
Worth, based on the struggles of attorney and adjudicator Kenneth Feinberg in awarding funds from the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Directed by Sara Colangelo, from a script from Max Borenstein (
Godzilla) that was Black List-selected way back in 2008, the film stars Keaton as Feinberg, and is adapted from his memoir
What Is Life Worth?. It’s set to premiere on Netflix in September, just in time for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Feinberg was a man placed into a rather impossible situation, made the “special master” of the 9/11 compensation fund, “tasked by Congress to allocate financial rewards to the victims of the tragedy.” It was his job to determine how much various families affected by the tragedy ought to receive in terms of payment from the fund, which understandably made him some bitter enemies along the way. Feinberg, however, was able to change the hearts and minds of some of his most vocal detractors over time.