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: “Massive information avid gamers I’m going to be filming the most important 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 beforehand 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 comparable to that of precise TV reveals — so why not go Hollywood?

Prime Video has leveraged large title creators to develop new reveals up to now. Amazon Studios took Crucial Function, a well-liked Dungeons & Dragons precise play sequence, and turned it into an animated sequence.

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

It’s arduous 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 similar factor, developing elaborate units and awarding $456,000 in prize cash. On his channel, which has 245 million subscribers, he frequently offers away a whole lot 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 arduous manner (I’ve tried and didn’t overlook that “Fred: The Film” and “Annoying Orange: Film Fruitacular” exist). However MrBeast isn’t simply one other YouTuber.

MrBeast occupies a weird house by which he’s most likely one of the influential individuals amongst kids in youngsters — his dominance in tradition is so massive that I consider it because the “MrBeast industrial advanced.” But most individuals over the age of thirty most likely don’t know who he’s. But when all goes properly with “Beast Video games,” this child from North Carolina will someway turn out to be much more omnipresent than he already is.