Netflix to produce limited series on former US President JFK

Netflix is developing a limited series based on the life of US President John F. Kennedy.

The series will be based on the critically acclaimed book “JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956” by Fredrik Logevall.

The book, originally published in 2020, is the first part of a planned two-volume biography of Kennedy. Part one examines his life from his birth up to his time as the junior US Senator from Massachusetts.

Eric Roth, the screenwriter of “Forrest Gump”, “Dune”, and “Killers of the Flower Moon”, is attached to write and executive produce the miniseries.

Netflix reportedly sees the new series as its equivalent to “The Crown”, its long-running series on the reign of Queen Elizabeth, given the highly influential history of the Kennedy family in US.

Roth is a highly successful film writer. He won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for “Forrest Gump” in 1995. He has been nominated for six more Academy Awards since, including for his work on films like “Munich,” Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” and most recently “Dune.”

He is also one of the credited writers on Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film “Killers of the Flower Moon.” His other writing credits include “Ali,” “The Good Shepherd,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the last of which also earned him an Oscar nomination.

The youngest man ever to be elected to as US President, John F. Kennedy’s story was a dramatic one even before his 1963 assassination in Dallas, Texas.

Entire movies have been devoted to unraveling the mysteries surrounding his assassination most famously, Oliver Stone’s JFK. The Kennedy family saga has been captured in miniseries a number of times