Kevin Spacey Contract Might Force Netflix To End ‘House Of Cards’

Kevin Spacey was promptly fired from “House of Cards” after his sexual allegations surfaced, which meant that Season 6 would be moving forward without its lead character, Frank Underwood.

However, several sources told The Blast that Spacey’s contract with Netflix and producer Media Rights Capital (MRC) might endanger the show’s future, since the actor does not have a morality cause.

The morality clause would allow Spacey to be suspended or terminated from production based on personal actions. For now, the only way Spacey can be suspended is if he becomes “unavailable” or “incapacitated” to fulfill his obligations.

Should Spacey’s removal push through, he “will be owed a fortune” because he was terminated without proper cause.

Meanwhile, sources close to Spacey said that he is not an employee of MRC, so the employee/company provision does not apply to them.

“While we continue the ongoing investigation into the serious allegations concerning Kevin Spacey’s behavior on the set of ‘House of Cards,’ he has been suspended. As the producer of the show, creating and maintaining a safe working environment for our cast and crew has always been our top priority,” MRC said in a statement.

For now, the actor has checked himself into Meadows, a medical centre in Wickenburg, in the hopes of curing his sex addiction. According to the Daily Mail, Spacey arrived at the $36,000 a month rehab centre in the Arizona desert last week. Spacey “is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment,” his representatives said in a statement.

The rehab center, which claims to have the best sex addiction treatment program in the U.S., will offer Spacey a wide range of classes which include horse riding, yoga, tai chi, and “mindfulness meditation.”

Spacey’s move is probably the reason why he’s gone quiet on his friends, who haven’t heard a peep from him since the sexual misconduct scandal broke out.

“He has not been communicating with people in his inner circle since,” a source told Entertainment Tonight. “He’s been MIA, even from those closest to him. He realizes how terrible this is and he knows the chances of him getting good work in this town again are very slim.”