The Staircase was one of the first true-crime documentaries to break out into mainstream culture when it was released in 2004.The series is now being remade as a limited TV drama series for HBO Max with Colin Firth playing Michael Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson.There were previously rumors that Harrison Ford had been attached to the project, which comes from Antonio Campos, the director of Rebecca Hall-fronted feature Christine, and American Crime Story writer Maggie Cohn.The Staircase is written and exec produced by Campos and Cohn and Campos will direct six of the eight episodes of the show, which is produced by Annapurna Television and HBO Max.The Staircase started out as a documentary from director
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