Mack Hopkins


Mack Hopkins is a television editor, producer, and on-camera presenter. He is the lead editor, co-creator, and a co-host of the Prime Video reality competition series Beast Games, and is also credited as a writer on the programme.

Career

Hopkins serves as the lead editor on Beast Games, where he coordinated a large, multi-editor post-production team across a high-volume workflow. In interviews about the show’s post-production, he discussed managing footage from more than a thousand cameras and shaping storylines from a very large raw media pool; he is also described as a co-creator and co-host of the series.
Hopkins’ editorial approach to the series, combining large-scale multicamera material with fast-paced, YouTube-influenced cutting—has been profiled in trade coverage and craft interviews.
According to craft interviews, episode one alone used more than 1,000 cameras, with total media for the season exceeding 1.7 petabytes; the post team scaled to roughly 22 editors and 23 assistant editors, cutting primarily in Adobe Premiere Pro under a compressed timeline from the first week of September to locked delivery before 17 December 2024. Hopkins also collaborated with 3D artist Desert Sage on the finale’s coin-flip montage, building crowd simulations and After Effects composites to visualize the season’s decision tree.

''Beast Games''

Beast Games premiered on Prime Video in December 2024. According to Amazon, the series became Prime Video’s most-watched unscripted programme, reaching 50 million viewers in 25 days; it was subsequently renewed for two additional seasons in May 2025. That performance and its broader significance in streaming and creator-led television were also reported in major outlets. Industry trades list Hopkins as one of the show’s co-creators alongside Sean Klitzner and Tyler Conklin, with Jimmy Donaldson as host and co-creator. In August 2025, production reports indicated that filming on season two had wrapped.

Filmography