· David Fincher and his Benjamin Button screenwriter Eric Roth will re-team to co-produce House of Cards, a television adaptation of the British book and acclaimed miniseries. The BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning story of a politician maneuvering toward the prime minister spot will be moved to the U.S.; money folks Media Rights Capital will pitch it to networks "soon," though probably not soon enough to provide the best possible excuse for NBC to end Jay Leno's experiments at 10 p.m. Oh well. There will be others. [THR]
Rob Corddry scores a hat trick, a Letterman vet joins a rock star to take on Chuck Klosterman, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Rob Corddry has found a friend for life in Warner Bros., the TV wing of which will bankroll a pilot featuring the comic in a send-up of the family sitcom. His WB.com hit Children's Hospital, meanwhile, will move to Adult Swim with 12 new episodes (at an expanded 11 minutes apiece), and he and his brother Nate will fill in that open Web window with a mockumentary about an unlikely sibling rock duo. He'll sleep in 2011. [Variety]
· You probably can't say you saw this one coming: Veteran Late Show writer Tom Ruprecht and Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn have paired to adapt Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman's memoir about growing up among North Dakota's few heavy metal fans in the 1980s. [Risky Biz]
· You know, the other day, while I was waiting for a screening of Where the Wild Things Are to start, I couldn't help but look around the theater and think, "Man, this doesn't seem right. Something's missing." Now I know what it was: NASCAR promos. Thank goodness! That was really starting to bug me. [THR]
· For as low as $125 per person, the studio lot near you is now available for weddings, birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, corporate retreats and other sizable family and/or business gatherings. Operators are standing by. [Variety]