X-Men Star Michael Fassbender to Play Joseph Kennedy Sr. in Netflix Kennedy Family Drama

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Netflix’s Kennedy household play is moving forward, with X-Men prima Michael Fassbender acceptable to play Joseph Kennedy Sr.

Variety reports that Netflix has ordered an 8 occurrence archetypal play simply titled Kennedy. It’s based connected JFK: Coming of Age successful the American Century, 1917-1956, by Fredrik Logevall. Fassbender, who played a young Magneto successful the X-Men films and David successful Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels, volition play the Kennedy household patriarch.

nullMichael Fassbender arsenic Magneto successful 2011's X-Men: First Class. Photo by Murray Close/Getty Images.

According to Variety, Netflix sees Kennedy arsenic an American mentation of the Crown, and volition illustration the Kennedy family’s emergence to prominence successful American authorities crossed aggregate seasons.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Kennedy reveals the intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the astir iconic dynasty successful modern history, and helped make the satellite we unrecorded successful today. Beginning successful the 1930s, the archetypal play charts the improbable ascent of Joe (Fassbender) and Rose Kennedy and their 9 children, including rebellious 2nd lad Jack, who struggles to flight the shadiness of his aureate lad older brother.
nullJoseph P Kennedy successful 1940. Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

As for Fassbender, there’s nary proposition helium volition astonishment Marvel fans and popular up arsenic young Magneto successful Avengers: Doomsday oregon Avengers: Secret Wars. Ian McKellen, who besides played Magneto the X-Men movies, is confirmed to instrumentality successful Avengers: Doomsday alongside respective different FOX-era X-Men actors,

Photo by Murray Close/Getty Images.

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