The producer of the upcoming Far Cry TV series confirmed that the series will not see an adaptation of the stories that were told in the previous Far Cry games.
Far Cry will get two games and one series for Disney+ in the future. It was said earlier that the series will be in an anthology format, and now we have found out that it will have nothing to do with games.
That is, it will have connections insofar as it will convey ideas from the games themselves – what it’s like when people find themselves trapped in an exotic location where they are threatened by madmen. However, alone stories and characters from previous Far Cry games will not be part of that series.
Producer Noah Hawley explained to Deadline why the series will not adapt the actions of the existing Far Cry games.
“I’m not adapting specific stories from the games they launched. We can have a broader discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of adapting video games simply because games are built in such a way that they are not the best basis for drama. When you play a video game, the plot moves forward only through the gameplay and then you have cutscenes that can be skipped. When you adapt a story from a game, you should be aware that such an approach makes the drama irrelevant to the story. And that is the death of any series.” Hawley said.
It’s an interesting view of the situation, but I wouldn’t really agree with the producer of the Far Cry series. It is true that in Far Cry games we have more gameplay than story. However, what remains in the memory when we are done playing? Characters like Vaas, Jackal, Pagan Min, Citra, Joseph Seed… The fact that cutscenes with these characters can be interrupted does not mean that these characters are dramaturgically irrelevant to the story.
What do you say about that attitude?