At this point, Michael Peterson’s story is fairly known.
He told me that there was way more to the story than in the doc.
And it just immediately became clear that there was this other story there to explore.
Colin Firth and Toni Collette in ‘The Staircase’.HBO Max
And then over the years, the story just kept developing and there were more twists.
At that point, Campos had already started working on the scripted project.
That then helped me figure out what the ending could be."
Cohn, on the other hand, didn’t experience a similar change of opinion.
But she hopes the story they’re telling isn’t about the end result.
It isn’t about innocence or guilt.
“We wanted to explore the true-crime genre in a different way,” Cohn says.
“Most true crime is the search for innocence, guilt, right, wrong, a single truth.
The first three episodes ofThe Staircaseare streaming now on HBO Max.
