(CNN) — One of is getting the Netflix treatment.

A new drama series titled “Kennedy,” based on Fredrik Logevall’s book titled “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956,” is coming soon, the .

The series will star Michael Fassbender as the family patriarch, Joe Kennedy, Sr., and will “explore the triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family.”

The triumphs as well as tragedies have been many for the Kennedys, the dynasty that produced the 35th US president as well as a New York senator and presidential hopeful, both assassinated. Talk of a Kennedy curse was reinforced when, among other unfortunate events, the former’s son, JFK Jr., lost his life along with his wife and sister-in-law in a plane crash in 1999.

A description of the show revealed that the series will begin long

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