Michael Fassbender will portray Joe Kennedy Sr. in Kennedy, a new drama series about the iconic family.

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The show will examine the family's "lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies" during the 1930s, an official synopsis states.

Casting for Joe's wife, Rose, and their nine children, have not yet been announced.

The series is based on JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, written by Fredrik Logevall.

"The story of the Kennedys is the closest we have to American mythology -- somewhere between Shakespeare and The Bold and the Beautiful," showrunner Sam Shaw told Netflix's Tudum. "But Fredrik Logevall'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're going, as about the Kennedys themselves."