House of Cards is dead at Netflix after six seasons, but the political drama is already eyeing several escape routes.
Per Variety, the streaming company is plotting a House of Cards spinoff series, possibly centered on Doug Stamper:
Variety has learned that the streaming service and producer Media Rights Capital are in very early stages of development on multiple ideas for a potential spinoff. One concept revolves around Doug Stamper, the political aide-de-camp played by actor Michael Kelly in the first five seasons of the political drama, with Eric Roth set to write. Roth served as an executive producer on the first four seasons of “House of Cards” and is currently exec producing TNT’s “The Alienist.”
At least two other spinoff ideas are also being explored, though writers have not yet been attached to all of them. All the potential series take place in the same universe as “House of Cards,” a political thriller about Frank Underwood, a devious congressman played by Kevin Spacey who ascends to the role of President of the United States through political and criminal machinations.
Would you watch a House of Cards spinoff series? Stay tuned to see if it happens…
A. Devlin says
Would I watch a HOUSE OF CARDS spinoff? NO. I hate to say it, but Spacey is the glue that holds the show together. Instead, bring back SENSE8.