WATCH: "Murdaugh: Death in the Family" Filmmakers Found Hidden Treasures in Georgia
"Murdaugh: Death in the Family," NBCUniversal's miniseries adaptation of the Murdaugh Murders Podcast, is streaming on Hulu. The production team found hidden treasures & new textures across Georgia to recreate settings from South Carolina and The Bahamas. Featured locations include Stone Mountain Park, Lake Lanier, Chateau Elan and Assembly Studios. Hear Michael D. Fuller (executive producer/co-creator), Erin Lee Carr (executive producer/co-creator), Dave Blass (production designer) and Andrea Keener (location manager) tell all about it.
In the making of "Murdaugh: Death in the Family", Assembly Studios served as a crucial production hub for bringing key interior scenes to life. The studio's soundstages housed two of the show's significant builds: a detailed recreation of the Moselle property interior and a transforming courtroom set. That courtroom was an especially impressive feat of production design, engineered to stand in for three different real-life courthouses across South Carolina, including Hampton, Beaufort and Colleton. In the climactic eighth episode, the space is used to dramatic effect as the walls figuratively close in on Alex Murdaugh during his trial. The production team's work at Assembly Studios was central to delivering the grounded, character-driven retelling the showmakers envisioned, one that honors not just the facts of the case, but the weight of its impact on real people's lives.