Noah Hawley is taking an unorthodox approach to adapting the video game franchise Far Cry for television.
The Alien: Earth and Fargo showrunner said he will not be adapting any of the games, but more wants to create “a dialog with the franchise,” similar to what he has done with other projects like X-Men for the series Legion or Alien.
“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,” he told Deadline in an interview published on Friday (April 24).
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However, he also went on to say that when playing video games, “you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip.”
Noah continued, “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.”
While video games don’t always work as television adaptations, his comments about skipping cutscenes has already rubbed many gamers the wrong way.
One of the most popular comments responding to his quote on a DiscussingFilm thread said, “Bro just outed himself for never playing Far Cry. Imagine getting the rights to gaming’s best villains just to call the drama ‘irrelevant.’ He clearly just wanted to write his own show and needed a popular IP to fund the project.”
“Just a reminder for the ‘experts’ out there in Hollywood: You actually CAN’T skip most main story cutscenes in the Far Cry games. This is embarrassing,” wrote another.
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