Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are developing a stage musical based on the notorious Fyre Festival, the ill-fated 2017 event that left influencers stranded in the Bahamas and its founder, Billy McFarland, behind bars.

The music festival that promised luxury villas, gourmet meals, and blink-and-you-miss-them celebrity selfies – but delivered cheese sandwiches and chaos – is getting a second act.

The production, titled Fyre Fest The Musical, will be a musical comedy tracing McFarland’s rise and spectacular fall.

In 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud and later served time in federal prison.

His disastrous festival became the subject of dueling documentaries on Netflix and Hulu, cementing its place in pop culture as a generation-defining debacle.

Filmmaker Bryan Buckle

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