True Crime Classic ‘The Staircase’ to Become HBO Max Limited Series Starring Colin Firth
The true crime classic The Staircase, Netflix’s docuseries about novelist Michael Peterson and the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen, is set to become an HBO Max limited series, with Colin Firth cast as Peterson. The streaming service and Annapurna Television announced the upcoming series Wednesday, with The Devil All the Time director Antonio Campos and co-showrunner Maggie Cohn leading the project “This has been a project I have been working on in one way or another since 2008,” Campos, who will helm six of the limited series’ eight episodes,...