MrBeast Mulls Real-Life Hunger Games With Million Dollar Prize That Would 'Not Use Real Weapons, Maybe Like Laser Tag or Something'

YouTube prima MrBeast is readying a real-life mentation of The Hunger Games wherever contestants are required to hunt each different down to triumph $1 cardinal dollars.

Following the occurrence of the creator's crippled amusement mentation of Squid Game, which is presently holding auditions for its adjacent season, Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson revealed helium was present turning his attraction to the deed conflict royale-style caller and movie bid The Hunger Games.

Asked astir his plans connected the Today Show, Donaldson seemed amazed connection had leaked retired astir what helium had been considering. "I don't cognize wherever you guys are getting your intel from," helium said. "Well yes, evidently we won't termination people. But yeah, you indispensable person talked to my team.

"I've been sitting connected this thought wherever it'd beryllium amusive to drawback perchance 26 random people, to enactment them connected an island," Donaldson elaborated, "and – not usage existent weapons, possibly similar laser tag oregon thing similar that – and past the past remaining 1 wins a cardinal dollars, to recreate Hunger Games successful existent life. I deliberation that'd perfectly crush."

In the archetypal novels and movie series, The Hunger Games are an enforced enactment of brutality from an opressive American regime. Contestants are chosen by lottery from each of the country's assorted downtrodden districts, and forced to combat until lone 1 remains. The slaughter is designed to beryllium a objection of fealty to the nation's president, a mode to support districts divided from each other, and arsenic a mode to entertain the country's elite.

Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson. Image credit: John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images.

"We recreated Squid Game, we besides rebuilt Willy Wonka's cocoa factory, and I person a cocoa company, and we gave distant aureate tickets, brought radical out, radical loved it," Donaldson continued. "A batch of times we conscionable bring these fictional ideas to beingness and radical emotion seeing it."

Originally planned arsenic trilogy of novels by writer Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games' immense occurrence has spawned 2 prequel books and a deed bid of movies primitively fronted by Jennifer Lawrence. A theatre mentation of the archetypal communicative is besides present successful production, with Mia Carragher, girl of erstwhile Liverpool FC subordinate Jamie Carragher, present formed arsenic pb quality Katniss Everdeen.

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