Another iconic British TV show is set for an American makeover: this time the plan is to revive and transplant House of Cards.
The blackly comic political thriller was written by Michael Dobbs and its 1990 BBC adaptation won awards for Andrew Davies as writer and Ian Richardson for his role as the unscrupulous Francis Urquhart.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the team behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher and writer Eric Roth, would be working on the remake.
The US version, produced by Fincher and Media Rights Capital, will move the action from the UK to America.
The adaptation follows a growing recent trend for British shows to transfer to the US, such as The Office and Life on Mars, and comes shortly after political thriller State of Play was given a big-screen treatment.
House of Cards was a dark product of Thatcher's Britain. Can what made it so good first time around be translated? You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
