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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.
Toni Collette to Make Directorial Debut With Adaptation of ‘Writers and Lovers’
Collette and Nick Payne are writing the screenplayBeatrice Verhoeven | March 11, 2021 @ 8:00 AM Last Updated: March 11, 2021 @ 9:28 AM
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Toni Collette will make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s New York Times best-seller “Writers and Lovers” for Topic Studios.
She will also write the screenplay with Nick Payne (“Wanderlust,” “The Crown”). Collette, who also brought the book to the studio, will produce under her Vocab Films banner alongside Susannah Grant (“Unbelievable”) and Sarah Timberman (“Masters of Sex,” “Unbelievable”). Michael Bloom, Maria Zuckerman and Ryan Heller will executive produce for Topic Studios