COLIN FIRTH TO PLAY A MURDEROR IN HBO MAX MINI SERIES THE STAIRCASE! KELVIN HARRISON JR TO LEAD 18TH CENTURY FRENCH COURT SET MOVIE CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

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Colin Firth will lead new HBO Max mini series

Which will be a TV series adaptation of the same documentary movie which was a huge mainstream hit. In HBO Max series THE STAIRCASE, Colin Firth will play Michael Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson. The story follows Michael, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed. Michael, a local public figure and successful novelist, quickly became the prime suspect and was convicted.

 

As Variety reports Searchlight Pictures has cast Kelvin Harrison Jr in the lead role in their period set drama CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES which will be directed by Stephen Williams. Born in 1745 in the French Caribbean, De Saint Georges was the illegitimate son of an African slave and a

Kelvin Harrison Jr will play Chevalier de Saint Georges

French plantation owner. He rose to improbable heights in French society, dazzling as both a violinist and composer, and a champion fencer. An ill-fated love affair with a French noblewoman, and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court led to his untimely downfall.