Colin Firth stars as the novelist convicted of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson
Reid Nakamura | April 29, 2021 @ 2:42 PM
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Toni Collette has been cast in HBO Max’s scripted “The Staircase” limited series as Kathleen Peterson, the wife of novelist Michael Peterson, whose suspicious death was the subject of the hit docuseries of the same name.
She joins Colin Firth in the series from Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohn. Firth stars as Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife and spent eight years in prison. In 2011, he was granted a new trial, but before it could start, he submitted to an Alford plea to the reduced charge of manslaughter. He was sentenced to time already served and was set free.
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Topic Studios, which recently released the Jodie Foster starrer The Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the New York Times best-seller.
Toni Collette will make a feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s
Writers and Lovers.
The Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the
New York Times best-seller.
It follows Casey Peabody, an underemployed, aspiring novelist in 1990s Boston whose world is rocked by a recent love affair and her mother’s sudden death. Her life becomes more complicated as she then falls for two very different men at the same time.