Netflix’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, has revealed the filmmakers Making a Murderer might be working on a follow-up season with updates about Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey’s murder cases.
There was so much public interest in the documentary series since its release that the White House actually responded to a petition to pardon Avery in the murder of Teresa Halbach.
During the Television Critics Association press tour over the weekend, Sarandos said, “The story is still unfolding. So we'll certainly take a look at it," Los Angeles Times reports.
Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi then spoke with reporters and said they had been gathering more footage to use in case a follow-up season gets greenlit.
Ricciardi said they have been recording their phone conversations with Avery since the documentary series came out “with an eye towards including them in any episodes should there be future episodes. But we have not returned to Wisconsin in the past four weeks."
Demos added, “This story is ongoing, these cases are open. It’s real-life so you don’t know what’s going to happen. We are ready…if there are significant developments, we will be there.”
However, Avery himself has not been given a chance to see it because a request to view it in jail has been denied.