“The Ladder”: hook up with the official trailer for the new HBO Max title, when is it released?

HBO Max continues to bet on productions based on real life and, in this regard, we give you a little more information about the upcoming and upcoming title on the platform's premiere list. Renowned and multi-award-winning actors Colin Firth and Toni Collette return to television to give life to Michael and Kathleen Peterson, a married couple from North Carolina, who apparently had the perfect life. But all this changes when Kathleen is found dead by her husband at the end of the staircase of their house.

La Escalera is a miniseries of 8 chapters in which the real events of the fateful event at the Petersons residence, the early morning of December 9, 2001, are narrated.

Through a 911 call, Michael tells the police that Kathleen had fallen down the stairs hitting her head, and that she appeared to be dead. “My wife had an accident, she's still breathing, she fell down the stairs,” is one of the testimonies that HBO Max takes up.

All preliminary indications suggest that this is a domestic accident in which the woman loses her life. However, unexpectedly, the man's version begins to enter swampy terrain, and the spotlights point on his figure. Michael is accused of killing his own wife.

Una historia popular

The story became widely known through a 13-episode docuseries that Netflix premiered in 2018. Although he took materials from the original docuseries broadcast on the Sundance channel in 2005, in 2012 and 2013, French director Jean-Xavier Lestrade added material to complete and reach the product available on Netflix. So controversial was the case that it became known outside the borders of the United States. You will now have a fictional version on the screen of HBO.

When is it released?

According to official information issued by the streaming service, the miniseries will be released on May 5, 2022.

Michael Peterson will be played by Colin Firth, while his wife Kathleen will be brought to fiction by Toni Collette. The series was created by Antonio Campos and is executive produced by Campos and Maggie Cohn. Other figures that complete the cast include Michael Stuhlbarg, Juliette Binoche, Dane DeHaan, Olivia DeJonge, Rosemarie DeWitt, Tim Guinee, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner, Vincent Vermignon, Odessa Young and Parker Posey.

El dato

Although, in real life, Michael was convicted of the murder of his wife Kathleen in 2003, a few years later, in 2017, he was released when an Alford plea of guilt was filed (a doctrine whereby a person pleads not guilty but who understands and admits that there is enough evidence for the prosecution to plead guilty) and thus the charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter.

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