Get ready for “Animal Survivor.” Jeff Probst, long-time host of CBS’ “Survivor” competitive reality series, announced on Wednesday that an animated film with the same game of alliances and, we assume, challenges, is being developed, except that all the players will be animals.
“I’m so excited to be teaming up with Paramount Animation to bring you ‘Survivor’ like you’ve never seen it before…in the animal kingdom! This will be an all-out comedy with animals competing for the chance to be crowned the sole Survivor. Let’s go!!!!,” Probst wrote in his Instagram post.
In a video, Probst promised that the movie will have “everything we love about ‘Survivor:’ big personalities, funny characters, surprising alliances, competition, chaos, and of course, a lot of heart. But this time, the players aren’t humans.”



No further details were immediately available, but of course fans of “The Simpsons” will recall that concept was already used as a joke in the 2002 episode, “Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade” in Season 14. In the brief segment, Probst tells the gathered animals — including a giraffe, a rhino, a zebra and a lion — “This week we saw a dramatic collapse in the lion-gazelle alliance.” Cut to a scene of the lion devouring the unfortunate gazelle.
An all-animals version of “Survivor” would no doubt involve predators and prey and unless there’s some kind of “Zootopia”-type social pact that forbids predatory behavior, it could be a free-for-all.
Past episodes of the all-human “Survivor” have been set in Australia, Thailand, Guatemala, Kenya, Brazil. According to Deadline, the animated film will be set on a “remote and mystical island” and feature “animals from all around the globe.”
What kind of animals, and animal alliances, would you like to see?


