FX is officially bringing Far Cry to television, with a new anthology series ordered straight to series and built around the chaos that has defined Ubisoft’s games for two decades.
According to the announcement, FX has teamed up Noah Hawley and Rob Mac to co create the show, with Mac also set to star and executive produce. The series will stream on Hulu in the United States and on Disney Plus internationally. Like the video game franchise, the show is planned as an anthology, meaning each season will tell a new story with a fresh setting and cast. That approach lines up neatly with what made Far Cry stick in the first place. Every game drops players into a different corner of the world, with a new conflict, a new villain, and a new kind of moral mess to survive.
Hawley and Mac both have long histories with FX, and the network is clearly betting on that comfort level. Hawley’s track record with Fargo shows he knows how to build seasons that feel connected by theme rather than plot, which is basically the Far Cry blueprint. Mac, meanwhile, has spent years balancing comedy and bite on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has recent producing experience with Ubisoft through Mythic Quest. The pairing suggests this adaptation will not just be a straight action ride. Far Cry stories tend to be about people pushed to the edge, power structures collapsing, and the ugly choices that follow. Hawley has lived in that space for years, and Mac has a knack for finding humanity in characters who probably should not be lovable.
This will be the first real live action television swing for Far Cry. The franchise has dipped into screen territory before, including the 2008 film directed by Uwe Boll and the animated Captain Laserhawk spinoff on Netflix in 2023, but neither felt like a full statement of what the mainline games do best. A season by season format gives FX room to chase bigger ideas, shift tones, and avoid getting boxed into a single storyline. If it works, it could become a long running series where every year feels like a new sandbox, while still carrying the shared DNA of the games.
For the Far Cry brand itself, the timing makes sense. The last main game, Far Cry 6, launched in 2021, and Ubisoft has not announced the next entry yet. A show can keep the name active while also reintroducing it to people who never touched the games. And with more than 100 million players over the life of the franchise, there is a built in audience ready to see how this world translates when the controller is taken out of your hands.
Nothing about plot or cast beyond Mac has been revealed, so the real test will be what kind of Far Cry story they choose to lead with. But an FX anthology shaped by Hawley’s thematic slow burn and Mac’s wild card energy is a pretty strong starting point.
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