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Reality TV phenomenon Survivor is going to become a movie - and it'll be about animated animals
50 seasons of Survivor have proven the show has staying power. Now we get to see if it has box office power.
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It is one of the most influential shows of all time, whether you like it or not. Survivor helped spearhead the reality television industry. Now, more than 20 years after it first debuted, Survivor is inexplicably making the leap to the big screen for the first time as an animated film about talking animals. Because of course it is.
In June 2026, Jeff Probst, who has hosted Survivor since the show debuted in 2000 (yes, it has been that long), posted on social media that the show is partnering with Paramount Animation for a new film project. Probst promises that it will capture “everything we love about Survivor,” including “big personalities, funny characters, surprising alliances, competition chaos, and, of course, a lot of heart.”
Weirdly, the movie won’t focus on any of the human contestants that have featured on Survivor over the years. “But this time,” Probst said. “The players aren’t humans. Imagine a big, fun, animated comedy about Survivor in the animal kingdom.”
If that sounds weird, it’s because it does, but Probst seems to see a connection that we’re missing. “Survivor’s always been about watching different personalities learn how to live together while competing against each other, and setting it in the world of animals gives us a whole new playground to play with.”
Making a Survivor movie feels like a baffling enough decision – how do they translate the unscripted nature of the show to the very scripted nature of films – but clearly Jeff Probst believes in turning the show into a movie about animated animals.
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