The Far Cry TV show has added another cast member – and I'm convinced he'll be playing the villain.
On Twitter, the official Far Cry account shared that Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of the upcoming video game adaptation. "Welcome Steve Buscemi to the world of FX's FARCRY," the account wrote. "Hope you’re ready to get thrown into the deep end, lose your mind, and make a few catastrophically bad decisions along the way."
That doesn't necessarily give anything away, but some of Buscemi's most iconic roles have been villainous: Fargo's Carl Showalter, Con Air's Garland Greene, Reservoir Dogs's Mr. Pink, and Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Thompson are all characters on the wrong side of the law. So, my prediction is that Buscemi will be playing a bad guy, in line with Giancarlo Esposito's casting as Antón Castillo in Far Cry 6.
Of course, Buscemi is just as adept at playing good guys, too, so I could be totally wrong. So far, the rest of the cast only includes Lizzy Caplan and Rob Mac, so it's pretty hard to make predictions at this stage.
The TV show is set to be an anthology series hailing from Noah Hawley. "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 has previously shared. "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.
"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,'" he continued. "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.
"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," he added.
How Hawley's take on the games pans out remains to be seen. The show doesn't yet have a release date.
In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming TV shows of this year to get planning your binge-watches.
