HBO Max‘s limited series The Staircase wrapped up this week and left fans with a lot of questions to no definitive answer on if Michael Peterson killed his wife, Kathleen.
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Viewers weren’t sure what to think of one “This Morning” guest on Wednesday.
Michael Peterson, who is the subject of the true-crime drama “The Staircase” starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette, chatted to hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield about his story.
Peterson, who is now 78, was previously found guilty of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson, who was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their home in 2001.
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He was granted a retrial in 2017 and was set free on a reduced charge of manslaughter after eight years in prison.
Peterson, who has insisted he’s innocent and believes his wife fell, said of whether he’s seen the new documentary surrounding his case, “No, I have not. No one in my family has watched it.”
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He said he was in prison for eight years and that he doesn’t want to watch any prison movies or anything similar right now, and definitely doesn’t want to see something when he’s lived it.
Some viewers couldn’t understand why “This Morning” invited Peterson on the show:
Others accused Schofield of being harsh after he made a joke about Peterson nearly falling down a staircase himself at the end of the interview:
HBO Max‘s limited series The Staircase wrapped up this week and left fans with a lot of questions to no definitive answer on if Michael Peterson killed his wife, Kathleen.
Addie Morfoot ContributorDisputes over Antonio Campos’ HBO Max adaptation of “The Staircase” have some in the documentary community questioning whether they would readily allow a narrative director to turn their facts into fiction.“The Staircase” revolves around the death of Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of her husband Michael, as the filmmakers chronicling the case for a docuseries of the same name become central characters in the storytelling. Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of the staircase of their North Carolina home in 2001, and Michael was convicted of murder in 2003 before accepting an Alford plea for manslaughter charges in 2017, which freed him for good.
Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWhat’s harder to work with when it comes to writing a limited series — true stories taken from real life, or the stuff of fiction? A panel of top writers debated the challenges of working with headline-driven and historical material during the final hour of Variety‘s Night in the Writers’ Room on June 9 at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood.“There’s a little bit of a tightrope-walk in a true story that you don’t necessarily have to walk in fiction,” said Dustin Lance Black, the writer-producer behind FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven.” He noted that the series, about the 1984 murder of a woman and her infant daughter in Salt Lake City, deals with three intertwined stories, one of which is fictional. “That one to me, I had a slightly easier time with.
Addie Morfoot ContributorAntonio Campos’ depiction of documentary filmmakers Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Sophie Brunet in HBO Max’s “The Staircase” has led to a public dispute over their portrayal in the miniseries adaptation. But now, the real-life main subject of both series – Michael Peterson – is speaking out in an exclusive series of emails to Variety.Peterson’s wife Kathleen was found dead at the bottom of the staircase of their North Carolina home in 2001.
Sasha Urban editorHBO Max’s “The Staircase,” which concluded Thursday, has its share of revelations for longtime followers of the true crime case. But even for viewers who watched every bit of the 2004 docuseries, one special line from the dramatized version undeniably stands out.
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A war of words has broken out between the filmmakers who have brought audiences two different versions, nearly two decades apart, of the real-life mystery behind The Staircase.
Director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade won critical acclaim for his 2005 documentary “The Staircase”, chronicling the trial of novelist Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife in 2001.
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