MrBeast teamed up with Alex Cross writer James Patterson to co-write a thriller novel with Squid Game-like components, in accordance with a report from Deadline. The upcoming guide, which doesn’t have a title but, has reportedly fetched eight-figure bids for the publishing rights.
The guide’s logline, which reads, “Players struggle to outlive lethal checks held in harmful places world wide, as they battle to change into ‘The One,’” sounds precisely like one thing the favored YouTuber, whose actual title is Jimmy Donaldson, can be concerned in.
MrBeast has leaned into the Squid Game style as of late, with lots of his viral YouTube movies revolving round varied video games and challenges, like pitting 100 children in opposition to 100 adults, and having a YouTuber battle royale. He most lately labored with Amazon’s Prime Video to debut the competitors actuality present Beast Games, which had contestants compete for $5 million in reportedly questionable circumstances.
Sources inform Deadline that the movie and TV rights to the novel are additionally already being shopped. Patterson has change into recognized for collaborating with authors like Candice Fox, Maxine Paetro, JD Barker, and others. He even labored with former President Bill Clinton to pen the guide The President Is Missing.
