FX has ordered a live-action anthology series based on Ubisoft’s Far Cry video game franchise, extending the network’s partnership with creators Rob Mac and Noah Hawley and adding another high-profile title to the current wave of game-to-TV adaptations. The show, announced this week and first reported by TheWrap, will stream on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ in international markets.
The series is conceived as a limited anthology, mirroring the structure of the games. Each season will unfold in a new setting with a fresh cast of characters, an approach the producers say allows the show to reset its story while returning to recurring themes of chaos, survival and moral ambiguity. Mac, best known as the creator of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and an executive producer on Welcome to Wrexham, will star in the first season and executive produce through his More Better Productions banner. Hawley, whose credits include Fargo and Alien: Earth, will executive produce through his 26 Keys label under a wider deal with FX and Disney Entertainment Television.
FX Entertainment president Nick Grad highlighted the network’s longstanding collaboration with both creatives, noting that their combined work already covers six series and 32 seasons. In a statement, Grad thanked Ubisoft for trusting FX with one of its flagship brands and predicted a series that will feel original and intensely watchable. Hawley has pointed to Far Cry’s anthology design as a natural fit for his style of storytelling, describing the opportunity to mount a large-scale action show that can reinvent itself each year while examining human behavior through a “complex and chaotic” lens as a dream project. Mac has called the partnership with Hawley a career milestone and praised Ubisoft’s openness in handing over the franchise.
Since debuting in 2004, Far Cry has drawn more than 100 million unique players, becoming one of Ubisoft’s most recognizable series. The first-person shooters are known for expansive “open world playgrounds” and outsized villains, including the dictator Antón Castillo, played by Giancarlo Esposito in 2021’s Far Cry 6. That track record, and the games’ self-contained stories, have made the property a frequent subject of adaptation rumors; an earlier web posting about an FX project was quickly removed in 2025, prompting speculation well before this week’s formal greenlight.
The new series arrives as studios look to established game IP after the success of recent adaptations, a trend that has drawn both enthusiasm from fans and concern from some commentators about market saturation. Supporters of the Far Cry project argue that an anthology structure and the creative pairing of Mac and Hawley give FX room to experiment rather than simply replay familiar storylines. No additional casting or premiere window has been announced, and the show is still in early development, but it will be produced by FX Productions with executives from both FX and Ubisoft Film & Television attached.
