Netflix has announced an eight-episode series based on the Kennedy family, with Michael Fassbender attached as the patriarch

The show will be based on Fredrik Logevall ’s book, “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956.”

Michael will portray Joe Kennedy, Sr., and the logline suggests there is more than one season planned at this time!

Here’s the logline: KENNEDY reveals the intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history, and helped create the world we live in today. Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.

Showrunner Sam Shaw to

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