Lionsgate and the Erwin Brothers' Kingdom Story Company have found their Kurt Warner. Shazam! star Zachary Levi is set to play the two-time NFL most valuable player in American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story.
The film, to be released by Lionsgate, is set to start production later this year. Levi will follow Warner's unlikely journey from stocking shelves at a supermarket in Iowa to becoming an NFL Hall of Fame quarterback.
Jon Erwin and Andrew Erwin will direct and produce the film written by David Aaron Cohen, Jon Gunn and Jon Erwin. Kingdom Story acquired Warner’s life rights, and the screenplay is based on interviews with Warner and his memoir, All Things Possible: My Story of Faith, Football and the First Miracle Season.
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