Assassin’s Creed isn’t the only hit Ubisoft blockbuster getting a TV series spin-off. Far Cry will be adapted as well, according to a recent leak on the publisher’s website. But the psychological horror series for FX will be helmed by an unlikely individual: Rob Mac of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame.
A news post that seemingly went up early on Ubisoft’s news site over the weekend before being quickly deleted indicated (according to Reddit) that a Far Cry show will be coming from It’s Always Sunny‘s home network, FX, with Mac joined by Fargo TV creator Noah Hawley, who also recently launched Alien: Earth. Hawley will be showrunner, while Mac reportedly stars in the “anthology” style Far Cry show.
The FX house-style is probably a good fit for the franchise, though it remains to be seen what a TV version of sneaking through outposts and blowing them up with gas tanks and RPG launchers ends up looking like. Mac isn’t a completely left field pick either. Ubisoft has been working with him up through the cancellation of Apple’s Mythic Quest, the workplace comedy about game development created with Megan Ganz and Charlie Day.
Ubisoft has a new Far Cry sequel currently in the works, and with previous entries being best-sellers, the open world FPS franchise is an obvious candidate for the current video game-to-TV pipeline gold rush. And unlike Assassin’s Creed, each Far Cry game features completely different characters and scenarios, giving the shows’ writers and producers lots of creative flexibility with how to present the loose franchise’s pillars of carving up animals for inventory upgrades and cult-leader villains.