The Netflix original series, starring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright, and Kate Mara, will be available for members to watch instantly beginning February 1st, 2013.
All 13-episodes of the drama series' first season will be available to Netflix members in North America, the UK, Ireland, Latin America and Scandinavia.
From director David Fincher (The Social Network), award-winning playwright and Academy Award nominated screenwriter Beau Willimon (The Ides of March) and Academy Award winner Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich), House of Cards is based on the BBC miniseries (televised in 1990, starring Ian Richardson) of the same name. This political drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern Washington D.C.
The series orbits Francis Underwood (Spacey), the House Majority Whip. Underwood is the politician's politician - masterful, beguiling, charismatic, ruthless, and many other superlatives. He and his equally ambitious wife Claire (Wright) stop at nothing to ensure their ascendancy.
Fincher directed the first two episodes of the series, which were written by Willimon. James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross), Joel Schumacher (Falling Down), Charles McDougall (The Good Wife), Carl Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress) and Allen Coulter (The Sopranos) also serve as directors on House of Cards.
The drama's second season is due to begin production in spring 2013.