MrBeast and Prime Video announce ‘largest recreation present in historical past’

The largest content material creator on YouTube, MrBeast introduced on Monday that he’s filming a recreation present for Amazon’s Prime Video.

On X, he wrote: “Huge information players I’m going to be filming the biggest recreation present in historical past and releasing it on Prime Video! Over 1,000 contestants, $5,000,000 prize, and lots of different world data.”

Deadline previously reported that this deal was within the works, however regardless, the information doesn’t come as a shock. It’s the pure subsequent step for the 25-year-old web phenom. He’s already producing YouTube movies which have a finances akin to that of precise TV exhibits — so why not go Hollywood?

Prime Video has leveraged massive title creators to develop new exhibits up to now. Amazon Studios took Crucial Function, a preferred Dungeons & Dragons precise play collection, and turned it into an animated collection.

“It’s going to be the biggest recreation present in historical past, with probably the most contestants any recreation present has ever had, with the biggest money prize in historical past,” MrBeast stated in an interview with YouTubers Colin and Samir. “It’s like our regular movies, however simply 20 occasions higher […] I’ve an even bigger finances. Cash’s not a constraint.”

It’s exhausting to think about that cash was a constraint to start with for MrBeast. Earlier than Netflix turned “Squid Sport” right into a actuality present, MrBeast did the identical factor, setting up elaborate units and awarding $456,000 in prize cash. On his channel, which has 245 million subscribers, he usually offers away tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} to contestants who full absurd duties, like residing in a grocery retailer for weeks, or competing in an Olympics-style showdown with one individual from (nearly) each nation.

It’s not all the time a protected wager to take on-line creators from the laptop computer display to the large display. Older YouTube sensations have discovered this the exhausting manner (I’ve tried and didn’t overlook that “Fred: The Movie” and “Annoying Orange: Movie Fruitacular” exist). However MrBeast isn’t simply one other YouTuber.

MrBeast occupies a weird area during which he’s most likely some of the influential individuals amongst kids in youngsters — his dominance in tradition is so giant that I consider it because the “MrBeast industrial complicated.” But most individuals over the age of thirty most likely don’t know who he’s. But when all goes nicely with “Beast Video games,” this child from North Carolina will one way or the other change into much more omnipresent than he already is.