Afrigather Netflix is growing a restricted sequence primarily based on the lifetime of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Selection has discovered completely from sources.
The sequence will likely be primarily based on the critically acclaimed ebook “JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956” by Fredrik Logevall. The ebook, initially revealed in 2020, is the primary a part of a deliberate two-volume biography of Kennedy. Half one examines his life from his beginning as much as his time because the junior U.S. Senators from Massachusetts.
Eric Roth is connected to write down and govt produce the venture. Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping of Chernin Leisure may even govt produce. The search is at present on for a showrunner.
Reps for Netflix didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.
In line with sources, Netflix sees the sequence as one thing like an American model of “The Crown,” their extremely profitable present about Queen Elizabeth II and the British royal household, given the extremely influential historical past of the Kennedy household in America. Whether or not meaning the present would comply with the identical sample as “The Crown” — during which totally different actors are available each two seasons to play the primary characters as they age — is unclear right now.
Roth is a extremely profitable movie author. He received the Academy Award for finest tailored screenplay for “Forrest Gump” in 1995. He has been nominated for six extra Academy Awards since, together with for his work on movies like “Munich,” Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” and most lately “Dune.” He’s additionally one of many credited writers on Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie “Killers of the Flower Moon.” His different writing credit embrace “Ali,” “The Good Shepherd,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the final of which additionally earned him an Oscar nomination.
He’s repped by CAA, Lenore Leisure Group, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Chernin Leisure’s present TV slate consists of reveals like “P-Valley” at Starz, which has been renewed for a third season, and the upcoming epic “Chief of Struggle” at Apple TV+ starring Jason Momoa. The corporate additionally lately co-produced the movie “Luther: The Fallen Solar” starring Idris Elba, with Elba reprising the position of Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, and “Dicks: The Musical.”
Chernin Leisure is repped by WME.
