Netflix’s Kennedy family drama is moving forward, with X-Men star Michael Fassbender set to play Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Variety reports that Netflix has ordered an eight episode first season simply titled Kennedy. It’s based on JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, by Fredrik Logevall. Fassbender, who played a young Magneto in the X-Men films and David in Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels, will play the Kennedy family patriarch.
According to Variety, Netflix sees Kennedy as an American version of the Crown, and will chart the Kennedy family’s rise to prominence in American politics across multiple seasons.
Here’s the official blurb:
Kennedy reveals the intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history, and helped create the world we live in today. Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe (Fassbender) and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.
