{"id":378303,"date":"2026-09-18T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378303"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:32:29","slug":"the-far-cry-series-reveals-five-more-actors-in-its-cast-including-several-oscar-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-far-cry-series-reveals-five-more-actors-in-its-cast-including-several-oscar-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Far Cry series reveals five more actors in its cast, including several Oscar nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Series based on video games are triumphing in a way that seemed impossible just a few years ago. <strong>That&#8217;s why it shouldn&#8217;t surprise us that FX is going all in on an original production: a Far Cr<\/strong>y series. And now we&#8217;ve learned that five new actors have been added to its cast who are anything but minor names. With two Oscar nominees among them who are very high-profile right now.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/far-cry-patch.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Far Cry<\/a> is bringing in top-tier talent<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Just added to the cast of Far Cry are Oscar nominees Jennifer Jason Leigh\u00a0(The Hateful Eight, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/far-cry-will-have-an-anthology-series-produced-by-the-creator-of-alien-earth-and-fargo\" rel=\"noopener\">Fargo<\/a>) and\u00a0Brendan Gleeson\u00a0(Spider-Noir, The Banshees of Inisherin)<\/strong>, as well as Hamish Linklater\u00a0(Batman: Caped Crusader, Whisper Your Name),\u00a0Sam Spruell\u00a0(A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) and\u00a0Jamie Demetriou\u00a0(Only Murders in the Building). making it one of the best-cast series in recent years.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the cast includes Lizzy Caplan and Steve Buscemi, which makes it clear they want this to be a star-studded series that attracts a general audience. <strong>They also seem to be leaning into that with the show&#8217;s format: each season will be self-contained and will tell a different story in a different setting<\/strong>, in the style of one of the previous series by its showrunner, Fargo.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Far Cry still doesn&#8217;t have a release date, it looks set to be one of the big surprises of the year it finally premieres. <strong>With the cast and the talent behind the camera, it already looks like a safe bet<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series based on video games are triumphing in a way that seemed impossible just a few years ago. That&#8217;s why it shouldn&#8217;t surprise us that FX is going all in on an original production: a Far Cry series. And now we&#8217;ve learned that five new actors have been added to its cast who are anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-far-cry-series-reveals-five-more-actors-in-its-cast-including-several-oscar-nominees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Far Cry series reveals five more actors in its cast, including several Oscar nominees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":378302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-378303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378304,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378303\/revisions\/378304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378303"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378303"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378303"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}