Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey will team up with “The Social Network” director David Fincher for a US remake of a classic British political drama series, Variety reported Thursday.
The pair will work together to produce a version of “House of Cards” set in the States.
The original 1990 BBC series followed the back-room machinations of the British parliament and starred Ian Richardson as fictional politician Francis Urquhart, a Machiavellian Conservative Party lawmaker once dubbed “the epitome of elegant evil.”
The show was based on a novel by Michael Dobbs, a former Conservative politician and aide to Margaret Thatcher.
No network is yet attached to the US version, written by playwright Beau Willimon.
Spacey, 51, has become quite the Anglophile since moving to London to serve as artistic director at the Old Vic theater, one of the city’s oldest stages, in 2003.
In November 2010, the New Jersey native was appointed an honorary CBE by Prince Charles at Clarence House, on behalf of the Queen, for his services to drama.