Sara Colangelo’s follow-up to “The Kindergarten Teacher” has secured distribution. Netflix and Michelle and Barack Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, scored rights to “Worth,” an adaptation of 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.” Deadline confirmed the news.

“Worth” sees Michael Keaton playing Feinberg, a lawyer who was appointed Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. “Tasked by Congress to allocate financial compensation to victims of the tragedy, the film chronicles his battles against bureaucracy and the daunting notion of trying to assess the value of those killed, in the face of cynicism, bureaucracy, and the politics of division,” the source summarizes. “Feinberg’s committee awarded $7.1 billion in taxpayer funds paid out to 5,300 people whose lives were irrevocably changed that fateful day when terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers in the World Trade Center, and hijacked and crashed commercial planes in D.C. and other U.S. cities.”

Netflix is planning to release the film in September to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

“Worth” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Colangelo’s last film, 2018’s “The Kindergarten Teacher,” stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a teacher who develops an unhealthy obsession with her talented young student.

“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,” the writer-director told us.

Colangelo made her feature debut with 2014’s “Little Accidents.”