{"id":1633874,"date":"2026-07-14T22:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/E5tM69T7KP2WnjiRWbeMgF"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:37:01","slug":"steve-buscemi-joins-the-far-cry-tv-series-cast-and-now-were-all-wondering-will-he-be-a-weird-helpful-npc-or-a-weirdly-charismatic-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/steve-buscemi-joins-the-far-cry-tv-series-cast-and-now-were-all-wondering-will-he-be-a-weird-helpful-npc-or-a-weirdly-charismatic-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Buscemi joins the Far Cry TV series cast and now we’re all wondering: will he be a weird, helpful NPC, or a weirdly charismatic villain?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever thought to yourself, I bet Steve Buscemi would make a good Far Cry villain?<\/em> I think he would. He’s charismatic, superficially good-natured, kind of odd looking, extremely high-strung, and prone to sudden, sometimes random outbursts of extreme violence. And I’m not the only one who thinks so\u2014the people making the live-action Far Cry series<\/a> for FX do, too.<\/p>\n

Word of Buscemi’s big role was delivered by the official Far Cry account on X<\/a>: “Welcome Steve Buscemi to the world of FX’s Far Cry. Hope you\u2019re ready to get thrown into the deep end, lose your mind, and make a few catastrophically bad decisions along the way.”<\/p>\n

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There’s actually no indication as to what role Buscemi will be playing in the Far Cry show, good guy or bad. At first blush, the announcement might seem to be warning Buscemi of bad things to come during his time in the cast, but I think it’s also quite possible to read it as a warning to viewers of all the bad things he’s going to do to other people. “Lose your mind and make bad decisions,” that’s kind of his whole vibe, right?<\/p>\n

Buscemi is too old to play Pagan Min or Vaas, and there’s obviously only one person who could fill the shoes of Ant\u00f3n Castillo. But he does have kind of a natural Joseph Seed vibe going on\u2014I could definitely see Buscemi as a guy who psychologically breaks someone so completely that they never speak again and won’t go outside without a mask on.<\/p>\n

Others on Team PCG feel differently. Chris Livingston thinks he’s going to be “a weird helpful NPC,” maybe like Hurk\u2014Buscemi doesn’t really have a Hurk-like physical presence but I can definitely see him firing rockets at random passers-by from the back seat of a busted-up hatchback.<\/p>\n

Wes Fenlon, on the other hand, thinks Buscemi will portray Jason Brody, the barely-out-of-his-teens hero of Far Cry 3. They’re de-aging actors for the upcoming Lord of the Rings flick The Hunt for Gollum, but even so I think this scenario is unlikely. I suspect it may even be possible that Wes isn’t being entirely serious here.<\/p>\n

Issy van der Velde opined that Buscemi would “be a great villain” in Far Cry, which is correct, but then went on to imply that he doesn’t much care because Michael Mando was “phenomenal” as Vaas and all Issy really wants is to see Mando turn up somewhere.<\/p>\n

The press release from FX isn’t any help, for the record: It says only that Buscemi has “built a career out of portraying some of the most unique and unforgettable characters” in movies and TV shows ranging from Reservoir Dogs and The Big Lebowski to Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, and Wednesday. ‘Odd’ might be Buscemi’s signature move but the man has range, and he could fill either role with equal ease.<\/p>\n

Here’s his big entrance as weird psycho killer Garland Greene in the 1997 Nicolas Cage classic Con Air:<\/p>\n

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