One of America’s most famous families is getting the Netflix therapy.
A new drama series titled “Kennedy,” primarily based on Fredrik Logevall’s e-book titled “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956,” is coming quickly, the streaming giant announced Monday.
The series will star Michael Fassbender because the family patriarch, Joe Kennedy, Sr., and can “explore the triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family.”
The triumphs in addition to tragedies have been many for the Kennedys, the dynasty that produced the thirty fifth US president in addition to a New York governor and presidential hopeful, each assassinated. Talk of a Kennedy curse was strengthened when, amongst different unlucky occasions, the previous’s son, JFK Jr., misplaced his life alongside along with his spouse and sister-in-law in a aircraft crash in 1999.
An outline of the present revealed that the series will start lengthy earlier than John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, with the primary season starting within the Nineteen Thirties and charting “the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.”
“The story of the Kennedys is the closest we have to American mythology — somewhere between Shakespeare and The Bold and the Beautiful. But Fredrik Logevall’s stunning, nuanced biography pulls a veil on the human strivings and burdens behind the myth, revealing as much about our present moment, how we got here and where we’re going, as about the Kennedys themselves,” showrunner Sam Shaw stated in an announcement.
The series, to not be confused with the upcoming Ryan Murphy-produced “American Love Story” focusing on JFK Jr., doesn’t but have a launch date. It will run for eight episodes.