Director
Leigh Janiak just served audiences a slasher trilogy spanning three different time periods and a hell of a lot of nostalgia with her adaptation of
R.L. Stine‘s
The Staircase, that tackles a high-profile death under very mysterious circumstances.
Leigh Janiak is on board to direct two episodes of HBO Max’s upcoming true-crime series,
The Staircase. The eight-episode drama series is an adaptation of the 2018 Netflix docuseries by the same name as well as a number of books and reports on the Michael Pearson case.
What’s the Michael Pearson Case?
In 2003, prolific novelist Michael Pearson was convicted of having killed his wife, Kathleen Pearson, two years prior. He claimed that his wife’s death was a result of her falling down the stairs as a result of being highly intoxicated from alcohol and Valium. However, the autopsy report concluded that Kathleen died from multiple injuries including blows to the back of her head from a blunt object.