The JFK limited series was developed by KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON co-writer Eric Roth

Netflix is ​​producing a limited series based on the life of US President John F. Kennedy and the project is in development The Assassins of the Flower Moon co-writer Eric Roth.

The series will be based on the book “JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956” written by Fredrik Logevall. That book is the first part of a planned two-volume biography of Kennedy. The first part focuses on Kennedy’s life from birth until he was the young United States senator from Massachusetts.

The report goes on to say that Netflix sees “the series as something akin to an American version of The crowngiven the highly influential history of the Kennedy family in America.

Kennedy certainly lived a crazy and interesting life. I’ve read a few books about his life, and unless you delve into his background, you have no idea how crazy his life was and the wild things that happened behind the scenes. I doubt this series can get into this kind of thing, but I hope they do! All the really interesting stuff is what most people don’t know about.

Roth will write and executive produce the project. Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping will also serve as executive producers. They are currently looking for a showrunner.

Here is the description of the book:

At the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy was at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most dangerous diplomatic stalemates of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to an Irish-American family that had become one of Boston’s wealthiest, Kennedy experienced political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest president-elect cemented his status as one of the most mythical in American history. And while hagiographic depictions of his dazzling charisma, accounts of his extramarital affairs, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death, all of these accounts fail to capture the whole person of him. .

Prompted by this gap in our historical knowledge, Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the “real” JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a comprehensive two-volume biography that adequately contextualizes Kennedy in the troubled American century. This volume traces the first thirty-nine years of JFK’s life-from his birth to his decision to run for president-to reveal his early relationships, his formative experiences during World War II, his ideas, his writings, his political aspirations. In examining these pre-White House years, Logevall shows us a more serious and independent-minded Kennedy than we had previously known, whose keen international sensitivity would have prepared him to enter national politics at a critical moment in the United States’ modern history United.

Along the way, Logevall tells the parallel story of America’s mid-century rise. As Kennedy comes of age, we witness the heated debate between isolationists and interventionists in the years before Pearl Harbor; the turmoil of World War II, through which the United States emerged as a global colossus; the outbreak and spread of the Cold War; the internal politics of anti-communism and the resulting plague of McCarthyism; the growth of television’s influence on politics; and more.

Source: variety