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.
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