US EditionNetflix Announces New Kennedy Family Series Starring Michael Fassbender
The eight-episode series stars Michael Fassbender as Joseph Kennedy Sr. and chronicles the family’s rise from the 1930s, based on Fredrik Logevall’s acclaimed biography.
- Netflix has greenlit Kennedy, ordering an eight-episode first season centered on the Kennedy family, with Michael Fassbender set to play Joseph Kennedy Sr.
- Sam Shaw will serve as showrunner and executive producer, adapting Fredrik Logevall's JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, with Thomas Vinterberg directing; news arrived almost two years after Variety first reported development.
- Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, revealing intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the dynasty.
- Variety reported Netflix sees the show as an American version of The Crown and Kennedy is intended as an ongoing series.
- Michael Fassbender, best known for his film work, takes his second leading TV role in recent years while starring in The Agency and appearing in Hope next year.
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Netflix plans the next series hammer! The streaming giant takes America's most legendary glamour and scandal dynasty – the Kennedys! At the heart of the Prestige series: power, love, betrayal and a family name that wrote history. A look behind the shiny facade of a family that had everything – and lost everything. The award-winning actor Michael Fassbender (48) slips into the role of the ice-cold family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy (1888 – 1969),…
The first season will be set in the 1930s and will follow the rise of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and their nine children.
Netflix Is Making A Series About The Kennedy Family Starring Michael Fassbender
Netflix and Chernin Entertainment have set the new drama series, Kennedy, which will explore the triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family, with Michael Fassbender (The Agency, Black Bag) cast as p...
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