Netflix is developing a biographical mini-series about the life of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy

It became known that Netflix is working with the writer of "Killers of the Flower Moon" Eric Roth on a series-biography about former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Here's What We Know

The series will be based on Fredrik Logevall's critically acclaimed book JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956. The book, published in 2020, is the first part of a planned two-volume biography of JFK. The first volume examines his life from birth to Kennedy's appointment as the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts.

According to sources, Netflix sees the series as its own American version of The Crown, a successful show about Queen Elizabeth II and the British royal family, given the Kennedy family's influential history in America.

Whether this means that Netflix is hoping for the same kind of interest in the project that "The Crown" managed to generate or that the series will follow the same format as the British project about the Queen, with different actors playing the main characters as they grow up, remains to be seen.

Recall, the post of U.S. President Kennedy held from 1961 to 1963, until he was shot in Dallas on 22 November 1963.

Eric Roth, who won an Oscar for the script for the film "Forrest Gump" in 1995, appointed writer and executive producer of the series. This choice of screenwriter already bodes well for the project, as Roth has been nominated for six more Academy Awards, including for his work on "Munich," "A Star Is Born" and, most recently, "Dune."

Also executive producing will be Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping of Chernin Entertainment. A search for a showrunner is currently underway.

Source: Variety