Jfk Jr. Movie Set

Sat., June 3, 2000

The Hollywood Reporter

The JFK Jr. story is about to become a TV movie.

Nearly a year after Kennedy’s death at age 38, Fox Television Pictures has optioned the rights to the 1999 best-seller “Prince Charming: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story” by Wendy Leigh. The two-hour movie is expected to air on Fox early next year.

“From the moment he was born, the world fell in love with John F. Kennedy Jr., and the desire to revisit his life remains undiminished,” a Fox spokeswoman said.

Kennedy died July 18, along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, when the plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

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