Survivor 51 will officially kick off a new phase of the iconic CBS reality series. The “open era” will open up the history books, as Jeff Probst has revealed that, moving forward, any season can feature any twist, idol or advantage from the past 26 years.“I weirdly wondered if Survivor the show was a company, what is our most valuable asset?” Probst tells Parade. “And I realized our most valuable asset is our history, our legacy of 50 seasons. And instantly, it was like, ‘Oh, I understand what to do. We’re gonna take everything we’ve ever done, and we’re gonna exploit it.'”
?SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? That said, mixing and matching previous elements in every open era season doesn’t mean the production team can’t still innovate. In fact, Probst has announced that one twist coming this fall takes one of the biggest moments from the most recent season and turns it into something that could change not only the game, but every season that follows.“One of the things of the open era is you can take any idea you’ve ever done and put it back into the show,” the Emmy-winning host says in an interview with the The Hollywood Reporter. “You can also take an idea you’ve done, put it back into the show with a twist. So we took an idea from 50, this idea of a million-dollar coin flip. We said, ‘What if we put that in the show every season? And every season, one player gets to flip a coin, and if you call it correctly, we’ll add a million dollars to the pot for that season.’“Then we put a twist on it,” he continues. “Same rules as 50, with one difference. If you call it incorrectly, you as a coin flipper are out, that million dollars rolls into the next season of Survivor. So in Survivor 51, at some point, a player’s going to flip a coin for a million dollars. If they land it, the prize pool will be $2 million for 51. If they don’t land it, that million dollars will go into Survivor 52, and somebody will flip a $2 million coin, making the prize money $3 million. And if that doesn’t land, it’ll go into 53. It will go until it pays off, and then it’ll start again.”Related: ‘Survivor 51’ Cast Revealed: Meet the 21 New Contestants — Including a Former WWE Superstar and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ StarThis is a take on a twist that MrBeast brought into the game as part of the handful of celebrity superfans whose appearances dotted Survivor 50. As Probst outlines, one player was given the opportunity to volunteer to flip a coin. If they successfully called it, they would receive immunity for the night, an idol, and add an additional million dollars to the pot. If they were unsuccessful, they were eliminated without a vote. Rick Devens showcased the risky behaviors that made him one of the ones to watch on the milestone season, as he quite literally took fate into his hands. Feeling he was the consensus boot, he eagerly took the game-changing opportunity. Thus, he flipped the coin, called it correctly, and created what Probst believes is the highlight of the season.Given the spectacle around the MrBeast coin flip, it’s not entirely surprising to see Survivor go back to the well almost immediately. What is interesting, however, is the consequence of having the extra million dollars roll over to the next season. While the show has undergone a natural evolution over 50 seasons, never before have the consequences of one iteration so significantly affected the next. Heck, if the open era players hit a particular streak of bad luck, we could be seeing contestants compete for a total of $5 or $6 million, one of the largest cash prizes in television history.We don’t know at this moment when the million-dollar coin flip will arrive, though hopefully we’ll find out more about the twist during tonight’s two-hour premiere. But Probst’s big reveal shows that, even if he insists the open era is done evolving Survivor, there’s one thing that could roll over every season: The winner’s bank account.
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