{"id":2107887,"date":"2025-10-22T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2107887"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:52:57","slug":"michael-fassbender-to-lead-netflix-drama-based-on-masterpiece-book-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-fassbender-to-lead-netflix-drama-based-on-masterpiece-book-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Fassbender to lead Netflix drama based on &#8216;masterpiece&#8217; book &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Showrunner and executive producer Sam Shaw shared with Netflix&#8217;s Tudum: &#8220;The story of the Kennedys is the closest we have to American mythology &#8211; somewhere between Shakespeare and The Bold and the Beautiful.&#8221;, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/michael-fassbender-lands-role-netflix-36108612\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports the Mirror.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Fredrik Logevall&#8217;s stunning, nuanced biography pulls a veil on the human strivings and burdens behind the myth, revealing as much about our present moment, how we got here and where we&#8217;re going, as about the Kennedys themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to be able to explore this saga of a family and a world in transition with Eric Roth, Thomas Vinterberg and our incredible band of artists and partners, at a moment when our past feels urgently present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century has already received hundreds of rave reviews on Goodreads. One reader exclaimed, &#8220;This book is a masterpiece. From start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I could give this 10 stars I would,&#8221; another concurred, while a third remarked, &#8220;One of the best books I have read in a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another insightful reader noted, &#8220;Superbly researched and written biography spanning the period of JFK&#8217;s youth to his decision to seek the presidency. Though it is full of information, the style of Logevall does not let the book get bogged down in detail. A joy to read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Yet another wrote, &#8220;Totally hooked. Amazing amount of research went into this! A great deal of history I wasn&#8217;t aware of and great insight into the mindset of JFK. Recommend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fassbender is a highly respected actor, known for his roles in films such as Hunger, Shame, Jane Eyre, Steve Jobs, 12 Years a Slave, and Inglourious Basterds.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also recognized for his performances in both the X-Men and Alien film franchises. One of his earliest standout roles was in HBO&#8217;s acclaimed miniseries Band of Brothers in 2001, and he recently appeared in the 2025 thriller Black Bag. The release date for Kennedy has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showrunner and executive producer Sam Shaw shared with Netflix&#8217;s Tudum: &#8220;The story of the Kennedys is the closest we have to American mythology &#8211; somewhere between Shakespeare and The Bold and the Beautiful.&#8221;, reports the Mirror. &#8220;But Fredrik Logevall&#8217;s stunning, nuanced biography pulls a veil on the human strivings and burdens behind the myth, revealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2107888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[399031,351659,366802,23191,399032,339159],"class_list":["post-2107887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-fredrik-logevall","tag-kennedy-family","tag-michael-fassbender","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-drama","tag-tv-section"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Michael-Fassbender-to-lead-Netflix-drama-based-on-masterpiece-book.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107889,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107887\/revisions\/2107889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}