JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Are Getting the Ryan Murphy Treatment
From the O.J. Simpson trial and Gianni Versace's murder, to the feud between Truman Capote and his swans, Hollywood producer Ryan Murphy has made a name for himself by taking sensational events and cultural moments throughout history and giving them his signature, campy spin for the small screen.
Fresh off the premiere of American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez this week, Murphy is already at work on more American Story spinoffs. American Love Story will explore the “sweeping true love stories that captured the world’s attention.”
And is there really a love story that was as fiery, beautiful, captivating—and tragically short-lived—as that of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette? America's golden couple will be the first subjects of the new scripted anthology series, which will chart the course of their relationship from their whirlwind courtship, to the immense pressures brought on by incessant tabloid attention, to the plane crash that ended it all in the summer of 1999.
American Love Story was first announced in 2021, and in September 2024, executive producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson confirmed to Variety it was still in the works.
"We’re very much intending to [tell that story]," Jacobson said. Simpson added, "We have great scripts on that. We’re trying to figure out when it’ll land. It is a story that really resonates right now. It’s amazing. A lot of younger women are looking to her as sort of a representational icon of a certain period of time that’s really fascinating, and hopefully, we’ll be able to bring that to the screen soon."
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