MrBeast co-wrote a book with James Patterson

MrBeast teamed up with Alex Cross writer James Patterson to co-write a thriller caller with Squid Game-like elements, according to a study from Deadline. The upcoming book, which doesn’t person a rubric yet, has reportedly fetched eight-figure bids for the publishing rights.

The book’s logline, which reads, “Players combat to past deadly tests held successful unsafe locations astir the world, arsenic they conflict to go ‘The One,’” sounds precisely similar thing the fashionable YouTuber, whose existent sanction is Jimmy Donaldson, would beryllium progressive in.

MrBeast has leaned into the Squid Game genre arsenic of late, with galore of his viral YouTube videos revolving astir assorted games and challenges, similar pitting 100 kids against 100 adults, and having a YouTuber conflict royale. He astir precocious worked with Amazon’s Prime Video to debut the contention world amusement Beast Games, which had contestants vie for $5 cardinal successful reportedly questionable conditions.

Sources archer Deadline that the movie and TV rights to the caller are besides already being shopped. Patterson has go known for collaborating with authors similar Candice Fox, Maxine Paetro, JD Barker, and others. He adjacent worked with erstwhile President Bill Clinton to pen the publication The President Is Missing.