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"This time there will actually be music or your money back": Taika Waititi is working on a Fyre Fest musical

Taika Waititi Bryan Buckley Fyre Fest Billy McFarland
A model walks the runway during the Fyre Fest The Musical Announcement Activation on September 08, 2025 in New York City.

Filmmaker Taika Waititi, best known for directing Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Jojo Rabbit (2019) and Thor: Love And Thunder (2022) has announced that he's working on a musical about Fyre Fest, the disastrous 2017 festival that promised to deliver a "luxurious, immersive music festival" and ended with promoter Billy McFarland being convicted of wire fraud and packed off to prison.

The news was announced at a "Fyre Fest The Musical Announcement Activation" event in New York City yesterday, with Waititi and wife Rita Ora confirmed as producers and Academy Award nominee Bryan Buckley in the director's seat.

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