EXCLUSIVE: An eight-figure bidding struggle has damaged out on the rights to a brand new thriller novel from the unlikely pairing of James Patterson and MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson).
Deadline understands that ebook world’s highest grossing creator, Patterson, and YouTube’s greatest star, MrBeast, have collectively penned the novel, which has shades of Squid Game. We hear UTA has put the novel out for submission and is rapidly gaining traction.
Film, TV and novel rights are being shopped, with sources near the method saying “eight-figure offers” are being fielded. One supply mentioned it was going underneath the title The Most Dangerous Game, however this hasn’t been confirmed and we hear different titles are being thought of.
Logline on the ebook reads: “Players struggle to outlive lethal exams held in harmful areas all over the world, as they battle to turn out to be ‘The One’.
There can be an accompanying non-fiction ebook within the package deal, we hear.
Prolific thriller author Patterson has persistently raked in thousands and thousands of {dollars} by means of books such because the Alex Cross novels, together with Along Came a Spider. Many of his works have turn out to be movies and TV reveals, together with Prime Video sequence adaptation Cross final yr. His literary collaborators embody Michael Crichton, Bill Clinton, Viola Davis and Dolly Parton. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal, in addition to the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. He additionally has obtained an Edgar Award and 9 Emmys. Patterson is repped by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, and Clark.
MrBeast’s reputation has exploded over latest years, and he now has essentially the most subscribers on YouTube, presently sitting at 378M. He has pushed into quite a few areas of enterprise. His Prime Video sequence Beast Games earlier this yr turned the streamer’s most-watched unscripted present after racking up 50 million views in 25 days. The present was topic to a lawsuit when contestants claimed they had been uncovered to unsafe situations and sexual harassment throughout filming. MrBeast has rejected the claims, saying they had been blown out of proportion.