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Zachary Levi, Kurt Warner hope ‘American Underdog’
inspires audiences with improbable NFL success story
By Peter Sblendorio
New York Daily News
L
ong before his new movie
tackled one of the NFL’s
great underdog stories, actor
Zachary Levi was moved by Kurt
Warner’s journey.
Warner’s improbable ascent
from grocery store employee to
a Super Bowl MVP is the sub-
ject of the new sports drama
“American Underdog,” which
stars Levi as the Hall of Fame
quarterback.
“I love any true-life sports
Cinderella story, and this one is
one for the ages,” Levi told the
Daily News. “I saw it happening
in real time back in ‘99 and was
so blown away and inspired by
it. Then I got the off er and I read
the script, and there was just so
much more.”
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Michael Kubeisy
Zachary Levi in “American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story.”
“American Underdog” begins
during Warner’s lone season
as a starter at the University of
Northern Iowa and follows his
struggles to make it with an NFL
team before joining the Arena
Football League.
“The hard part of making this
movie is that a lot of people do
know the story,” Warner said.
“You can look it up. It’s been
chronicled. People have talked
about it.”
He ultimately signed with the
St. Louis Rams ahead of the
1998 NFL season and became
their starter the following year,
throwing 41 touchdown passes
as the leader of a high-powered
off ense nicknamed “The Great-
est Show on Turf.”
“That’s going to be the back-
drop for the movie,” Warner said.
“But what they’re really going to
see is the story behind that. The
story that helped me to get to that
point, to become the player and
the person that I was at that point.”
The fi lm depicts Warner’s
relationship with his wife, Brenda,
who was a single mother of two
when they met. It also shows the
fi nancial struggles the couple
faced early in their relationship,
which caused Warner to take a
job stocking shelves at a Hy-Vee
supermarket in Iowa before his
football success.
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