Get Your First Look at Colin Firth in True Crime Drama 'The Staircase'
The first images from HBO Max's highly anticipated drama The Staircase are here, which will likely lead many of us to ask the question: Could Mr. Darcy be a murderer?
Colin Firth (Pride & Prejudice, The King's Speech) stars as Michael Petersen, the man at the center of a controversial murder trial who was charged with killing his wife in 2001. Anyone who considers themselves any kind of true crime enthusiast has probably heard of the Petersen case---and the wild conspiracy theories that surround it. Based on French filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's docu-series of the same name, which first aired on the Sundance Channel in 2005 and for which new three episodes were made when it moved to Netflix in 2018, the HBO series will dramatize the investigation into the mysterious death of Kathleen Petersen.
The 48-year-old was found by her husband at the bottom of the staircase in the couple's North Carolina home, lying in a pool of her own blood. Petersen called 911, the police didn't believe the death was accidental, and he was arrested and charged with his wife's murder. But that's not where the story ends.
