Sherri Shepherd is set to lead the cast and executive produce a new Lifetime movie on Genelle Guzman, a New York City transit worker who was the last survivor pulled from the rubble at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks.
The film titled Angel in the Rubble comes from journalist Robin Roberts’ production banner Rock’n Robin, Lifetime announced earlier today.
The movie recounts how Guzman (Shepherd) was buried alive when the Twin Towers collapsed shortly after terrorists flew hijacked passenger planes into each of the towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth plummeted into a Pennsylvania field when passengers fought back…