Far Cry TV Series Officially Announced, from Creators of Fargo and Always Sunny

Ubisoft trying to figure out how to add microtransactions to a TV show as we speak.

Having Noah Hawley attached makes me interested but I'd prefer it if he focused on Alien: Earth.

Without knowing much about Far Cry, how do you do an adaptation of it? Don't all the games feature different characters and are set in different countries? If I had to guess, they're going to either do their own thing, or directly adapt FC3.

@ShadowRJ Well if it's anything like this train wreck:

then it will be a pass from me.

So, expect a lot of dark humor, which is also trademark for Farcry games.

If a FC series must exist, those two creatives are a great choice.

Oh! Based on the showrunner, I think this will be pretty darn good.

I'd usually groan at stuff like this, but FX is one of the most consistently great production companies and television networks. And it's from the people behind some of FX's best, so unlike pretty much anything else Ubisoft, I have hope for this.

I personally like the Far Cry games quite a lot, finished 3, Primal, 5 and its sequel, and currently starting 4. Heard that 3 and 4 have the "best" stories, but to be honest the story was not that interesting for me, I liked the gameplay more. Cannot really see how it could work on a tv-show.

This could be good actually. I'm interested.

Sounds awful.

I'll probably watch it.

Whilst not a big fan of late of far cry (too much the same personally), looking forward to what Hawley can do after seeing fargo and legion. His shows have some great and sometimes bizarre casting, and made me really like Billy bob Thornton. It'll perhaps be a sleeper in some respects.

@ShadowRJ states in the article its an anthology, so could be a story every episode about a different country, person; whatever. Think black mirror as a more.recent example. Same universe in a way different stories.

Edit - could.also be say 3 episodes a story, an entire season etc. Depends how long they expect it to run for.

And who else could be in it but Michael Mando and Giancarlo Esposito. Both excellent in Better Call Saul!

So Rob Mac is playing Hurk, right?

@Jammer Each season will be its own story, bit like American Horror Story.

I hope Danny Devito will have a role in it!

@Jammer They might, it'd be the simplest one to do production-wise. Personally I hope they do their own thing.

I'd imagine a similar setup to Fargo with a different story each season, but with some crossover/references to previous characters.

And it'll be set in Wrexham

Adore the franchise, but don’t watch TV. Maybe this could lead to proper new versions of the old games?

Hope the guns dont get stuck like in Far Cry 2. 1-5 and the spin offs were pretty good. Far Cry 6 was meh!

@Vermines

I read Jody Bernal!

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Fargo Season 5 is already a bit Far Cry 5, in a way. I don't imagine they would start with an American set one, but you never know. It feels like the smart move will be to start with a more isolated setting to set up the premise. But i'd be hyped to see an American cult season.

The Far Cry franchise has never intrested me that much but I do wanna watch this TV show adaptation since both Hawley and McElhenney will be handling it.

@ShadowRJ
Its from the creators of Fargo which was a black comedy anthology series where every season is a new storyline so that same approach makes sense to me.

Those are two fantastic show runners, it’ll be interesting to see what they cook up together.