April 24, 2026
Far Cry TV Series Won't Adapt Any Of The Games, Showrunner Says
Far Cry is one of several video game adaptations headed to TV in the future, but don't expect this series to be a straight-up recreation of the games, like HBO's The Last of Us. Showrunner Noah Hawley had previously mentioned how he envisions the show as an anthology series , and in a new interview, he mentioned that he won't be "specifically adapting" any of the games in the first-person shooter series. Speaking to...
Far Cry is one of several video game adaptations headed to TV in the future, but don't expect this series to be a straight-up recreation of the games, like HBO's The Last of Us. Showrunner Noah Hawley had previously mentioned how he envisions the show as an anthology series , and in a new interview, he mentioned that he won't be "specifically adapting" any of the games in the first-person shooter series. Speaking to Deadline , Hawley explained that he wants to bring his idea of what a Far Cry story is to TV. "I'm not specifically adapting any of the games that they've put out," Hawley said. "I'm saying much as I did with the Coens or X-Men, or Alien, 'let me have a dialog with this franchise, because this is what I think a Far Cry story is.' We can have a larger conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of adapting video games, specifically because games are built in a way that doesn't make for the best drama." As Hawley put it, the traditional gameplay structure of a video game--gameplay and skippable cutscenes--doesn't make for a compelling story. "That makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline. That is death for a show," he said. Far Cry games typically revolve around a protagonist being dropped into hostile territory and having to fight back against a charismatic antagonist--a formula that was cemented in 2012's Far Cry 3. Continue Reading at GameSpot
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