{"id":13044,"date":"2022-03-30T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1617277"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:33:08","slug":"the-staircase-trailer-gives-first-look-at-colin-firth-as-michael-peterson","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-staircase-trailer-gives-first-look-at-colin-firth-as-michael-peterson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Staircase trailer gives first look at Colin Firth as Michael Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Flora Carr\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 30 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Sky has released the first look trailer for The Staircase, the true crime drama series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette and inspired by the story of Michael Peterson.<\/p>\n

Based on a real-life case, the eight-part series will focus on Michael Peterson (Firth) and the death of his second wife, Kathleen Peterson (Collette), who he claimed to have found lying at the bottom of a staircase in their North Carolina home.<\/p>\n

The series will arrive sometime this spring and charts how a now-famous documentary series (later titled The Staircase) on the Peterson family and case began filming shortly after Michael\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

Co-produced by Annapurna Television, the limited series \u2013 airing on HBO Max in the US \u2013 is written and executive produced by showrunners Antonio Campos (The Devil All The Time, Christine) and Maggie Cohn (Versace).<\/em> Campos also directs six episodes, with Leigh Janiak directing two episodes.<\/p>\n\n\u201cThis house is filled with so many memories,\u201d says Firth\u2019s Michael Peterson in the short teaser trailer. As grainy home footage of the Peterson family in happier times plays, he continues in voiceover: \u201cFamily is all we got. We\u2019re not perfect, God knows. But we\u2019ve survived, because we stick together, and we love each other.\u201d<\/p>\nHowever, we soon switch to a more sombre tone, as police sirens blare and one of Michael\u2019s sons says: \u201cKathleen\u2019s dead. Dad found her at the bottom of the stairs. I think she fell.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s fiction. It\u2019s fabrication,\u201d Michael later says in the teaser, when the idea that he murdered his wife in \u201ccold blood\u201d is mentioned.<\/p>\nWe also see flashbacks to the Petersons\u2019 marriage, with Kathleen even cracking an ominous joke about how she hopes her mysterious husband\u2019s name is in fact \u2018Michael\u2019 \u2013 \u201cUnless he\u2019s playing the long-con.\u201d<\/p> The starry supporting cast includes Dopesick\u2019s Michael Stuhlbarg, Game of Thrones\u2019 Sophie Turner,\u00a0Chocolat\u2019s Juliette Binoche, The Amazing Spider-Man\u2019s Dane DeHaan, Lost in Space\u2019s Parker Posey, The Society\u2019s Olivia DeJonge\u00a0and\u00a0Inventing Anna\u2019s <\/em>Tim Guinee.<\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?id=489797&clickref=radiotimes-0&awinmid=11005&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sky.com%2Fshop%2Ftv"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""sponsored" noopener noreferrer\">Find out more about how to sign up for Sky TV here<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>Looking for something else to watch? 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