I sat down with Jon Watts (director of the Tom Holland Spider-Man films), who EPs Amazon’s new Murder 101 docuseries, which just premiered at Sundance.
I also spoke with the series director, Stacey Lee, who shared that the series is a mix of Dead Poets Society, Friday Night Lives and Mindhunter.
Synopsis:
A decades-old unsolved Tennessee case stumps top detectives until a high school sociology class breaks it wide open.
Murder 101 is rare true crime series that is told in real-time.
And it’s wild watching these high school students come together and use the class as an accelerant in their own development.
The team behind this project is really interesting, and Watts has a mega-watt track record:
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
Producer
Wolfs (Apple TV+) (2024)
Dir/Wri/Prod
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Director
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
Director
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Director
Cop Car (2015)
Dir/Wri/Prod
Clown (2014)
Dir/Wri
Lee is the master documentarian behind Hulu’s The Secrets of Hillsong and Disney+’s Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film).
Murder 101 will be available later this year.
