Everyone who’s anyone in the gaming industry is currently having their hit game franchise turned into a movie or TV series. For Ubisoft, that means an Assassin’s Creed adaptation on Netflix and a new Far Cry series on FX . The latter is being run by Noah Hawley, whose illustrious credits include Fargo and Alien: Earth . Odds are he’ll make a good TV show, but it’s not clear he understands how the games he’s adapting really works. The showrunner recently explained why he’s penning original stories for the Far Cry TV adaptation rather than borrowing from Ubisoft’s existing games. On the one hand, Far Cry is a franchise known for its storytelling, with complex villains and cinematic plot twists. On the other hand, it’s an anthology series where, despite shared game systems and thematic and tonal overlap, each game stands alone. It’s not surprising a creator would want to put his or her own new spin on Far Cry rather than just recreate its past.…