Have you ever thought to yourself, I bet Steve Buscemi would make a good Far Cry villain? 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—the people making the live-action Far Cry series for FX do, too.
Word of Buscemi’s big role was delivered by the official Far Cry account on X: “Welcome Steve Buscemi to the world of FX’s Far Cry. Hope you’re ready to get thrown into the deep end, lose your mind, and make a few catastrophically bad decisions along the way.”
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?
Buscemi is too old to play Pagan Min or Vaas, and there’s obviously only one person who could fill the shoes of Antón Castillo. But he does have kind of a natural Joseph Seed vibe going on—I 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.