Simply months after Billy McFarland bought the Fyre Fest model rights on eBay for a mere $245,300, the notorious occasion is being developed as a musical.
Titled Fyre Fest The Musical, the challenge comes from the husband-wife manufacturing workforce of Taika Waititi and Rita Ora. It can heart on the life story of McFarland and the failed 2017 competition that landed him in jail for fraud and has since been explored in a number of documentaries.
In a press launch, the musical is described as “not only a Greek-sized tragedy of 1 man’s con. It’s a satirical indictment of a whole technology. Fyre Fest The Musical. It’s about as fallacious as a nasty thought can go.”
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Whereas a manufacturing timeline and potential Broadway run for Fyre Fest The Musical haven’t but been introduced, the artistic workforce has been revealed. Frequent Tremendous Bowl business director Bryan Buckley will direct and write the ebook, with music by Oscar- and Grammy-winner Paul Epworth and set design by Hamilton’s David Korins.
“Working within the theater is at all times enjoyable,” Waititi mentioned in an announcement. “I imply I haven’t finished it for 15 years as a result of it was not enjoyable, however I’ve been instructed it is going to be enjoyable this time. And I consider them.”
He continued, “When Bryan Buckley instructed me he needed to make a musical concerning the Fyre Pageant, I mentioned, ‘Who the hell is Bryan Buckley?’ I then remembered we’ve been pals and work mates for 15 years so it was kinda onerous to say no. Truthfully, I feel the concept is thrilling, bizarre, and doubtlessly disastrous, which appears apt and is how I prefer to work. I can’t wait to get began and snatch me a few of that candy American theatre cash.”
“I by no means noticed myself doing a theatrical musical comedy,” Buckley added in an announcement of his personal. “However then once more, I by no means noticed one thing utterly mind-bendingly ridiculous and intriguing as what went down with Fyre Pageant. A spectacular failed endeavor — that may hang-out a technology endlessly. I can not wait to get this present out to the world. And yeah man, this time there’ll truly be music or your a reimbursement.”
McFarland’s model sale got here after a number of aborted makes an attempt to launch Fyre Fest 2, and a purported seven-figure deal that the convicted felon claimed fell by way of. Sadly for McFarland and the unique Fyre Pageant buyers — to whom he owes greater than $20 million in restitution — giving up these rights means he gained’t see a dime from the musical.
This musical isn’t the one challenge on Waititi’s docket. He’s at present connected to direct a brand new live-action adaptation of Choose Dredd.