Posted on 10/30/2017 2:25:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1
As allegations of unwanted sexual advances in 1986 by Kevin Spacey against then-14-year-old Anthony Rapp have emerged, Netflix today decided to pull the plug on the Spacey-starring House of Cards after the upcoming sixth season next year.
Coming just more than 12 hours after Star Trek Discovery star Rapp first made public his allegations of what happened at a party at Spacey’s New York City apartment back in the mid-1980s, the streaming service made the official decision today, sources tell us. While Netflix and producers Media Rights Capital were leaning towards ending the show a while ago, key cast and creatives were only alerted this morning in a series of calls.
“Media Rights Capital and Netflix are deeply troubled by last night’s news concerning Kevin Spacey,” the companies said in a joint statement today. “In response to last night’s revelations, executives from both of our companies arrived in Baltimore this afternoon to meet with our cast and crew to ensure that they continue to feel safe and supported. As previously scheduled, Kevin Spacey is not working on set at this time.”
We have also heard that Netflix’s Spacey-starring film Gore about the acerbic author Gore Vidal may be on the chopping block now too. The Reed Hastings-run streaming service has stayed officially silent on the sexual advance claims. No word yet if the NYPD is looking into the Rapp claims that allegedly occurred in its jurisdiction.
Late Sunday, Rapp claimed that then-26-year-old Spacey drunkenly put the teen on a bed to “seduce” him. “I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually,” Rapp said last night of the 1986 incident when Spacey and he were both on Broadway...
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I bet all of Spacey’s co-stars are royally p!$$ed.
1 more season and then gone. It hasn’t been that good the last two seasons anyway. I doubt many will be upset by this news.
So, in Progressive-speak, Netflix is homophobic!
The show was hoping Hillary got elected ‘now it was her turn’.
They find out he’s gay and cancel the show. How homophobic of them? /sarc
AFAIK, season 7 was never green lit. The shooting for season 6 is ongoing as we speak. Season 6 will air in 2018. As far as I can tell Netflix hasn’t done a darn thing differently as a result of the news about Spacey.
They claim they made the decision that season six would be the final season a couple months ago.
Looks like you type faster than me :)
I just want to see Frank, Claire and Doug arrested, tried and convicted of murder.
I've never seen the show, but it seems that if Spacey has been buggering little boys it plays to the realism of the cesspool in DC.
He needs to get assassinated in the first episode. He doesn’t even have to appear on screen. Claire (Hillary) made the show, anyway. It needs to revolve around her.
Season 2 was the last season that made any sense anyways
Well good. The show went to hell after the 3rd season. Glad its finally getting cancelled.
More specific, pedophilophobic.
I guess cancelling it immediately would be too inconvenient...
Yeah, I need to see the whole thing come crashing down. It’s a house of cards, right? The gun is on the table, use the gun.
Moreover, in the opening sequence of the season after he becomes president there is a long lingering scene of a presidential motorcade winding through a cemetery where he gets out, asks for privacy, walks to his father’s grave, and takes a long piss.
>>More specific, pedophilophobic.
No. He was 14. Progressives consider that to be above the age of gay consent. Alinsky Rule: make the enemy live up to their own rules. This was homosexual recruiting. It’s how they “breed”.
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