Sara Colangelo will follow up “The Kindergarten Teacher” with a biopic. She’s been tapped to helm MadRiver Picture’s “What Is Life Worth,” Deadline reports.

Based on Kenneth Feinberg’s 2006 memoir, “What Is Life Worth?: The Inside Story Of The 9/11 Fund And Its Effort To Compensate The Victims of September 11th,” the film will star Michael Keaton as Feinberg, a D.C. lawyer facing a seriously daunting task. He’s been “put in charge of the 9/11 Fund. In almost three years of pro bono work on the case, Feinberg fought off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds to victim’s families — and in doing so, discovered what life is worth,” the source details. Stanley Tucci co-stars.

Set to begin production in April, “What Is Life Worth” was originally going to be directed by David Frankel (“Collateral Beauty,” “The Devil Wears Prada”).

Colangelo took home the Directing Award for Maggie Gyllenhaal-starrer “The Kindergarten Teacher” at Sundance 2018. The psychological thriller tells the story of a Staten Island-based kindergarten teacher who discovers a child in her class is a gifted poet. She becomes fixated on the child and is willing to do anything and everything to protect his talent and share it with the world.

We asked Colangelo, who made her feature debut with 2014’s “Little Accidents,” the best and worst advice she’s received. “A well-known, older male comedian came up to me at an industry party once when I was in my late 20s and told me that if I wanted to make it in this business I should never get married or have kids,” she recalled. “It’s such an abysmally stupid piece of advice, and I didn’t take it too seriously but it does go to show the sometimes strange treatment you get as a young, female filmmaker in this business. I’m proud to say that I got married, had a baby, went into production, and submitted a cut to Sundance all within a year’s time and never experienced any major creative slowdown! So his advice proved wrong.” She continued, “The best piece of creative advice I’ve received is to love your characters no matter what. It seems obvious but I try, regardless of the tone and style of the film, to give them the benefit of humanity despite their sometimes flawed logic and awful deeds.”