Trailer for The Staircase: There is No Truth Without Lies
The Staircase Releasing Date
The full trailer for HBO Max’s newest true-crime limited drama The Staircase has been released. The first three episodes of the series will be available for streaming on May 5, with the rest to follow.
The Staircase trailer, which you can watch below, teases the aftermath of Kathleen Peterson’s untimely death, which takes place in the film. As family members turn on one another for the sake of discovering the truth, the film depicts a complicated family drama unfolding at the center of a murder investigation.
The Staircase Trailer
Overview
The Staircase stars Colin Firth as Michael and Toni Collette as Kathleen, as well as Michael Stuhlbarg, Juliette Binoche, Dane DeHaan, Olivia DeJonge, Rosemarie DeWitt, Tim Guinee, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner, Odessa Young, Parker Posey, and Vincent Vermignon. The Staircase is directed by Michael Stuhlbarg and written by Michael Stuhlbarg and Vincent Vermignon.
The logline for the limited drama reads, “Based on a true story, the limited drama explores the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.”
In 2001, Peterson was apprehended and charged with Kathleen’s murder. In the beginning, he claimed that her death was caused by a fall down the stairs while delirious as a result of a combination of alcohol and Valium intoxication. The autopsy report, on the other hand, disproves Peterson’s claims, concluding that she died as a result of multiple injuries that she sustained. Multiple blows to the back of the head with a blunt object were among the assaults she suffered.
Showrunners Antonio Campos (The Devil All the Time, The Sinner) and Maggie Cohn (American Crime Story) are co-creators of The Staircase, which is written and directed by them both. A co-production between HBO Max and Annapurna Television, with Campos and Cohn serving as executive producers, The Max Original is currently in production.
