FX’s 'Far Cry' Anthology Series Adds Lizzy Caplan To The Cast
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FX’s Far Cry TV series just cast Lizzy Caplan in an undisclosed role. She joins Rob Mac, creator of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, who will also be an executive producer for the series.
Caplan had her breakthrough role as Janis Ian in 2004’s Mean Girls. Later, she starred in Cloverfield (2008), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), Now You See Me 2 (2015), and Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025). Between 2013 and 2016 she played the sexuality pioneer Virginia E. Johnson in Showtime’s Master of Sex, which earned her an Emmy nomination, as did her role of Libby Epstein in Hulu’s Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022).
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Most recently, she starred in Zero Day (2025) alongside Robert De Niro.
Not much is known about the Far Cry series, other than that it will be, like the games it is based upon, an anthology series and that it is helmed by Noah Hawley (creator of FX’s Fargo and Alien: Earth).
"One thing that really attracted me to the Far Cry franchise is that it is an anthology and every time they release a new game it is a totally different story,” Hawley said back in April and continued: “To create a big action show that can change from year to year, while always exploring the nature of humanity through this complex and chaotic lens is a dream come true.“
But the executive producer does not plan to adapt the stories of the games into TV seasons, but instead create original stories:
"I’m not specifically adapting any of the games that they’ve put out – I’m saying much as I did with the Coens or X-Men [he created FX’s Legion] or Alien, ‘Let me have a dialog with this franchise, because this is what I think a Far Cry story is.’ 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 said.
"When you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip, 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."
As the show is still in early production, it will take some time until the first season premieres on FX, Hulu, and internationally on Disney+.
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