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Squeezie Releases €700,000 Train Game Show on YouTube, Billed as France’s Costliest Video

The 1h40 production from his studio Unfold signals a move by French creators toward television-scale projects.

Overview

  • Titled “Qui réussira à stopper le train ?”, the video pits ten prominent creators against challenges across nine wagons, with €100,000 for a charity at stake for the winner.
  • The shoot took place on a privatized railway in Romania with custom-built sets and close to 90 crew members, produced in-house by Unfold.
  • Squeezie serves as presenter for the feature-length format, which blends YouTube sensibilities with TV game-show cues evoking Snowpiercer and Fort Boyard.
  • Squeezie says the project cost about €700,000, which he describes as the highest budget for a single French YouTube video.
  • A Télérama review praises the spectacle but criticizes some mini-games as derivative and notes only two women among ten participants, as other coverage situates the release within a broader push that includes Inoxtag’s Everest film and Michou’s Terminal.