“Egregious fabrications”: Michael Peterson blasts HBO’s The Staircase

Michael Peterson

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The drama around The Staircase continues. This time, writer Michael Peterson – whose murder trial and conviction are the subjects of both The Staircase series – has come out to blast the HBO production, and the director who filmed him two decades ago.

“There are egregious fabrications and distortions of the truth in the HBO series, well beyond what may be considered ‘artistic’ license,” he wrote in an email exchange with Variety. He then went on to comment on the recent public fall-out between 2004 docu-series director Jean de Lestrade and HBO director Antonio Campos.