FX’s “Far Cry” series has added another player to the game.
Steve Buscemi has signed on to co-star in the upcoming video game adaptation, TVLine has learned, with Rob Mac and Lizzy Caplan — who’s also joining Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” — already in the cast. No details on Buscemi’s character have been released.
The “Far Cry” video game franchise launched in 2004 with the PC game “Far Cry,” a first-person shooter with a tropical island setting. The franchise later grew to six games and numerous spin-offs, eventually getting ported over to XBox and PlayStation consoles as well. It also inspired a 2008 film adaptation.
FX’s “Far Cry” series is co-created by Mac and “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley, with Mac set to star as well. The series “will retain” the video game franchise’s “signature standalone storytelling format with each season set in a new setting following a new cast of characters,” the network says.
Buscemi is best known for film roles like “Reservoir Dogs” and “Fargo,” but he also has an extensive history on the small screen. He played ex-con Tony Blundetto on “The Sopranos” and starred as Atlantic City gangster Nucky Thompson on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” winning a Golden Globe and earning two Emmy nominations. His other TV credits include “30 Rock,” “Miracle Workers,” and “Wednesday.”
In other casting news…
* Susan Kelechi Watson (“This Is Us”) will join Dakota Fanning in the cast of her untitled Apple TV thriller, Deadline reports. Fanning stars as an undercover Treasury agent working inside a billion-dollar international conglomerate and falling for one of her targets; Watson will play Dawn, a handler for U.S. governmental covert operations.
* Jodie Whittaker (“Doctor Who”) will star alongside Ellen Pompeo in the Hulu pilot “Chicks,” according to Deadline. She’ll play Doreen, half-sister to Pompeo’s Chickie, as the two of them start running cons together after their criminal father unexpectedly dies.
* Angie Harmon will star in two more “Buried in Barstow” movies for Lifetime, the network has announced. The movies star Harmon as former assassin Hazel King, who “tries to build a quiet life for herself and her daughter but her dark past keeps coming back to haunt her.” (The original “Buried in Barstow” made its cable debut in 2022.)
* Paramount+’s upcoming “Tulsa King” spin-off “Frisco King,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, has added two to its cast in recurring roles, per Deadline: Tom Pecinka (“American Rust”), as businessman Ryland; and Arturo Del Puerto (“For All Mankind”), as landscaper Hector.
