{"id":55992,"date":"2026-06-15T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=55992"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:22:35","slug":"outlast-the-jungle-producer-reveals-intense-movie-scene-that-inspired-survival-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/06\/15\/outlast-the-jungle-producer-reveals-intense-movie-scene-that-inspired-survival-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlast: The Jungle producer reveals intense movie scene that inspired survival show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/06\/10\/outlast-the-jungle-model-halle-cooley-is-tiktok-famous-and-living-all-our-cowgirl-dreams\/\">Outlast: The Jungle<\/a> producer Grant Kahler is speaking out on the movie that inspired the idea for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/06\/11\/heres-the-reason-jason-bateman-is-randomly-the-producer-of-netflixs-outlast-the-jungle\/\">Netflix<\/a> show. It&#8217;s a film that didn&#8217;t immediately come to mind, but it took years for him to finally get the reality show approved, and now it&#8217;s finally here for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>He is the executive producer alongside Jason Bateman, and told <a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/tv\/outlast-netflix-grant-kahler-interview\">Parade<\/a>: \u201cWhat I\u2019ve always thought about is, \u2018How do you start with a very real situation?\u2019 And I think that perfect movie to start with is Alive, the Andes Mountains crash. That&#8217;s something I wanted to test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If your plane goes down, and that guy next to you is a great hunter, can you also deal with him as a person? Because he\u2019s all you\u2019ve got. And that social dynamic is a very, very real part of survival. And so I just thought this was a very real way to test that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZam2HXmrDa\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZam2HXmrDa\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Trystan Davis (@try_pod)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>He also said: &#8220;I\u2019ve wanted to do one like this for a long time. I\u2019ve always wanted to bring the social dynamic angle into the survival experience. Because I just always thought about these these things. You can imagine how many thousands of these shows are pitched?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it\u2019s always like, \u201cOh, how do we complicate the rules? How do we change this?\u201d What I\u2019ve always thought about is, \u201cHow do you start with a very real situation?\u201d And I think that perfect movie to start with is Alive, that movie\u2019s not just about eating someone\u2019s butt meat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grant, who has worked on Alone, added: &#8220;It\u2019s about how do they deal with each other as well. I can\u2019t speak for Netflix, but I think they were looking for something in this space. 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