‘DR. DEATH’: MAGGIE KILEY TO DIRECT FIRST 2 EPISODES AS PEACOCK LIMITED SERIES SETS ALL-FEMALE DIRECTING TEAM
First Published on Deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: MAGGIE KILEY (DIRTY JOHN: THE BETTY BRODERICK STORY, RIVERDALE) IS SET TO DIRECT AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCE THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF PEACOCK’S LIMITED SERIES DR. DEATH, STARRING JAMIE DORNAN, ALEC BALDWIN AND CHRISTIAN SLATER.
Kiley replaces Stephen Frears, who had signed on for the project in January but had to step away due to scheduling conflicts given the shift of production dates due to coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Death, from UCP, was among a slew of shows whose production was delayed by months amid the pandemic.
Kiley leads an all-female Dr. Death directing team, which also includes Jennifer Morrison (One Of Us Is Lying, Euphoria), who will direct the third and fourth episodes, and So Yong Kim (Lovesong, Grand Army), who will direct the remaining episodes.
Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the failures of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us. It tells the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Dornan), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Slater), set out to stop him.