Indie filmmaker Antonio Campos, the director behind chilly thrillers “Simon Killer” and “Christine,” returns to the small screen with “The Staircase” on HBO Max The eight-episode narrative limited series is an adaptation of Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s true-crime docuseries of the same name that spanned from 2004 to 2018.
The crime series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette arrives on HBO Max May 5 with three episodes, followed by one episode each week.
Overall, the HBO Max Original is eight episodes.
Watch the trailer below.“The Staircase” explores the life of Michael Peterson (Firth), his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson (Collette), who was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their mansion.
Her husband, Marine Corps veteran Michael, was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and mayoral candidate when he was convicted of Kathleen’s murder in 2003.Starring alongside Firth and Collette is an embarrassment of rich talents: Michael Stuhlbarg,
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