Back in November last year, a TV show based on the Far Cry series of first person shooters was first announced along with the news that it would be executive-produced by Noah Hawley, who’s known for popular shows like Fargo and Alien: Earth. And in a recent interview with Deadline, Hwayley has shared insights on their unique approach towards bringing Far Cry to the TV as he said:
“One thing that really attracted me to the Far Cry franchise is that it is an anthology and every time they release a new game it is a totally different story,” he explained. “That’s how I approach Fargo, and it was an exciting idea that we could build an anthology game adaptation where each season is a different story about civilized people thrown into situations where they have to become increasingly uncivilized.”
He’s absolutely on point at what the games are essentially like–putting players or the main protagonists of the games in an unfamiliar territory where they adapt to something primal in order to escape or overcome their predicaments. He also confirmed that the TV series won’t be an adaptation of any of the games we’ve seen from the franchise:
“I’m not specifically adapting any of the games that they’ve put out – I’m saying much as I did with the Coens or X-Men [he created FX’s Legion] 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,” he said.
“When you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip, so when you go to adapt those games you have to be aware that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline. That is death for a show.”
The Far Cry TV show will be filmed in London at Pinewood Studios, but no cast has been officially announced so far.
