Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson is teaming up with Amazon MGM Studios to create a fully-fledged actuality TV show of his personal: Beast Games. The game show competitors will pit “over 1,000” contestants towards one another in a likelihood to win a $5 million money prize, a launch mentioned. Beast Games doesn’t have a launch window but, however it can debut worldwide solely to Amazon’s Prime Video service.
Donaldson is set to be the host and can function an government producer on the show. We don’t have many different particulars on the competitors, however a launch that mentioned it could be primarily based on his YouTube show.
“My goal is to make the greatest show possible and prove YouTubers and creators can succeed on other platforms,” Donaldson mentioned in a launch. “Amazon gave me the creative control I need to try and make it happen. I hope to make the YouTube community proud.”
Donaldson has cultivated a huge YouTube viewers by way of sharing over-the-top, stunt content material. At time of publication, his YouTube channel has over 245 million subscribers. True to the character of his earlier content material, this show seems to one-up greater than a few prior initiatives. The show will likely be “biggest reality competition series ever” with the “biggest single prize in the history of television and streaming,” a description of the show mentioned.
The announcement is the subsequent flip in a sequence of occasions that seemingly began with Netflix’s viral hit, Squid Games. Following the discharge of the show in 2021, Donaldson revealed a video that turned the fictional battle royale state of affairs into a real-life actuality sequence. The video, titled “$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!”, later turned his most-viewed video ever. At the time of this writing it has nicely greater than half a billion views. Roughly two years later, Netflix created a actuality show of its personal impressed by Squid Games, however launched it to little fanfare.
Donaldson was not concerned with the creation of the Netflix’s actuality show, however in a put up on X he mentioned he “probably could have helped them immensely” with it. Time will inform if he can really stay up to that assertion with Beast Games.
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