Steve Buscemi is joining FX’s Far Cry TV series in a role nobody involved will name. FX confirmed the casting via press release, as Variety reported, and stopped short of saying who Buscemi is actually playing. He is the latest famous face to sign on, following Lizzy Caplan earlier in the summer, and the pair will star alongside Rob Mac of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, who is also producing the series with showrunner Noah Hawley.
Who is Steve Buscemi playing in the Far Cry series?
That is precisely what FX is not telling anyone. The press release confirmed the casting and left the character entirely undisclosed, and the creative team has kept plot details for the first season under wraps. The official Far Cry account leaned into the secrecy with a welcome post promising Buscemi would be “thrown into the deep end, lose your mind, and make a few catastrophically bad decisions along the way” — which, as PC Gamer noted, tells you plenty about tone and nothing about whether he is hero, villain, or something in between.
Speculation will run to villain, and it is easy to see why. Far Cry is a franchise built on its antagonists, and Buscemi has spent a career making unsettling and charismatic men watchable. He is an Emmy-winning actor best known on television for Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos, and on film for Reservoir Dogs and Fargo. There is a neat symmetry in a Fargo film alumnus joining an FX series run by the man behind the Fargo TV adaptation. Whether Buscemi ends up tormenting the protagonist or being tormented is anyone’s guess for now.
How closely does the show follow the games?
It doesn’t adapt any single Far Cry game at all. The series is an anthology, mirroring how the games themselves jump between settings and casts, with each season set to bring a new cast, story, and location. Hawley (Fargo, Alien: Earth) and Rob Mac co-created the project, and we covered the reasoning behind that structure when Hawley confirmed the anthology approach. It is a sensible call: rather than lock the show to one game’s plot, the format keeps it renewable across years, and it gives the writers room to chase the wild, morally chaotic energy the games are known for without being handcuffed to Far Cry 3 or 5.
The gamble is obvious enough. Video game adaptations have finally started landing, and the ambition here is clearly to bottle whatever made Fallout work on Prime Video. Casting of this calibre suggests FX is taking the swing seriously.
When does it release and where can you watch it?
There is no confirmed release date, and production does not appear to have started yet. The show is being produced for FX, with plans to stream on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ internationally. Filming may begin later this summer or in the autumn, with speculative windows pointing to late 2027 or early 2028, but none of that is official.
Meanwhile, the games are in an odd holding pattern. Far Cry hasn’t had a brand-new mainline entry since 2021 after years of steady releases, and rumours suggest the next one could be a sharp departure, possibly with weapon durability and a time limit in the vein of Dead Rising. Ubisoft may be angling to time the next game to the show’s debut, though that remains unconfirmed.
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