Fyre Festival was scheduled to take place on the Bahamian island of the Great Exuma back in spring 2017. It was described as a “luxury music festival” by its organizers, who paid famous social media influencers – including Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid – to promote it online.

Guests who made their way to the Great Exuma realized they’re victims of fake advertising, as the party in paradise they were promised turned into a total nightmare. Netflix explored this train wreck of a festival in their documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, but a more comical look at this event is coming our way.

Jorma Taccone of the Lonely Island confirmed he’s working on a spoof with his partners Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg. Seth Rogen is also on board, but this promising parody is still in its early stages.  

“I don’t want to divulge all the details but we’re figuring it out right now. You’ve seen the docs, right? It’s crazy. This is something that Akiva and Seth cooked up, and we’re figuring it all out right now,” said Taccone.

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Did the poor fools who paid thousands for tickets ever get their money back?

The short answer is… no. Although there was an online form for ticketholders to request a refund, no one received any money back from the festival organizers. Obviously this is because there was no money to give. Some people managed to get money back from their banks, but generally speaking, everyone is still waiting to get their money back.

Where did the money come from to begin with?

At the start of the documentary, the organizers seem to have endless amounts of money to throw at the festival. First, they buy an island. Next, they invite some of the biggest international supermodels to the island to promote the festival. There were yachts, an open bar, jet skis and one hell of a promotional video. Later on, McFarland allegedly paid Kendal Jenner $250,000 for one promotional post on Instagram. So where did the money come from?

Most of the money came from McFarland’s start-up credit card money, Magnises. After that ran out, he exchanged promises of money and started selling imaginary add-ons to unsuspecting ticket-holders.

Why was there so much footage?

Surely if a festival is going that wrong, you’d want to keep it under wraps not shoot the disaster for all to see? It turns out they wanted to document the evolution of the festival, not realizing they’d instead be documenting its extinction.

Did the local workers ever get paid?

The documentary would have almost been hilarious if it was only a handful of uppity Instagrammers that got screwed over. When restaurant owner Maryann Rolle shed tears in front of the camera, admitting she handed out $50,000 from her own pocket to pay her workers, our hearts broke. Luckily, the Netflix documentary resulted in a Go Fund Me page which reimbursed her and the rest of the workers.

At what point did it all go wrong?

This is difficult to answer because things seemed to go wrong at every single stage. A big fail was when they lost the paradise island, but it was McFarland’s consistent over-promising and misuse of the budget which ultimately lead the festival’s failure.

You can watch the documentary on Netflix now.

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Netflix’s Fyre documentary at times feels more like a thriller than an account of events that actually happened. With seemingly endless amounts of footage of the festival at their disposable, the producers had a lot of freedom when it came to framing the events in a way they thought relayed the truth in the most entertaining way.

The first half of the festival is filled with supermodels, yachts and success. The first-time festival sells out 90% of its tickets in just 48 hours and Instagram’s top influencers create an epic hype around the event simply by posting an orange tile. Although the documentary does not fundamentally criticize the harmful role that social media can have as a whole, it still relays the sinister part that social media played in the success of ticket sales. Netflix demonstrate that although posing on Instagram in a scenario that makes your life look a lot more glamorous than it actually is is mostly harmless, it can also potentially be dangerous.

What Billy McFarland sold for millions of dollars was not a festival, but the idea of a festival. People handed over thousands of dollars so they could have a taste of the dream, which turned out to be camping out on wet mattresses in tents that were previously used to give shelter following Hurricane Katrina. When it is revealed to the ticket-holders just how much of a fail the Fyre festival actually is, it’s hard not to laugh at their misery.

And then just like that we feel guilty for laughing. Hundreds of festival-goers being locked in an airport with no food and water is more disturbing than funny. The hundreds of local workers who were unpaid for their labor is devastating, and the woman who gave her life’s savings to appease as many of the workers as she could is heartbreaking. Watching her tear up in front of the camera admitting it is painful for her to talk about the festival is a reminder of just how real and severe the impacts of McFarland’s mistakes were.

Is McFarland a bad person? The documentary leaves that question ambiguous. The Billy we see is a man who gets overexcited by an idea and gets trigger-happy, selling all sorts of promises he ultimately cannot deliver on. Billy would not give up on his dream, and while perseverance in the face of a dream can be admirable, when it came to the Fyre Festival, this perseverance was foolish, disastrous and ultimately criminal.

Overall, Netflix’s documentary is firing on all accounts and is one of the tensest recollections of business gone wrong we have seen. Billy McFarland is the Wolf of Wall Street without the profit, and he is just as entertaining to watch as Leonardo DeCaprio. The shocking story of the greatest party that never happened was told superbly by Netflix, and we’ll be talking about it for weeks to come.

5/5

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Fyre Festival was scheduled to take place on the Bahamian island of the Great Exuma back in spring 2017. It was described as a “luxury music festival” by its organizers, who paid famous social media influencers – including Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid – to promote it online.

Guests who made their way to the Great Exuma realized they’re victims of fake advertising, as the party in paradise they were promised turned into a total nightmare. Netflix explored this train wreck of a festival in their documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, but a more comical look at this event is coming our way.

Jorma Taccone of the Lonely Island confirmed he’s working on a spoof with his partners Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg. Seth Rogen is also on board, but this promising parody is still in its early stages.  

“I don’t want to divulge all the details but we’re figuring it out right now. You’ve seen the docs, right? It’s crazy. This is something that Akiva and Seth cooked up, and we’re figuring it all out right now,” said Taccone.

The post The Lonely Island, Seth Rogen Developing Fyre Festival Parody Film appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Did the poor fools who paid thousands for tickets ever get their money back?

The short answer is… no. Although there was an online form for ticketholders to request a refund, no one received any money back from the festival organizers. Obviously this is because there was no money to give. Some people managed to get money back from their banks, but generally speaking, everyone is still waiting to get their money back.

Where did the money come from to begin with?

At the start of the documentary, the organizers seem to have endless amounts of money to throw at the festival. First, they buy an island. Next, they invite some of the biggest international supermodels to the island to promote the festival. There were yachts, an open bar, jet skis and one hell of a promotional video. Later on, McFarland allegedly paid Kendal Jenner $250,000 for one promotional post on Instagram. So where did the money come from?

Most of the money came from McFarland’s start-up credit card money, Magnises. After that ran out, he exchanged promises of money and started selling imaginary add-ons to unsuspecting ticket-holders.

Why was there so much footage?

Surely if a festival is going that wrong, you’d want to keep it under wraps not shoot the disaster for all to see? It turns out they wanted to document the evolution of the festival, not realizing they’d instead be documenting its extinction.

Did the local workers ever get paid?

The documentary would have almost been hilarious if it was only a handful of uppity Instagrammers that got screwed over. When restaurant owner Maryann Rolle shed tears in front of the camera, admitting she handed out $50,000 from her own pocket to pay her workers, our hearts broke. Luckily, the Netflix documentary resulted in a Go Fund Me page which reimbursed her and the rest of the workers.

At what point did it all go wrong?

This is difficult to answer because things seemed to go wrong at every single stage. A big fail was when they lost the paradise island, but it was McFarland’s consistent over-promising and misuse of the budget which ultimately lead the festival’s failure.

You can watch the documentary on Netflix now.

The post All The Questions We Still Have After Watching The Fyre Festival Documentary appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Netflix’s Fyre documentary at times feels more like a thriller than an account of events that actually happened. With seemingly endless amounts of footage of the festival at their disposable, the producers had a lot of freedom when it came to framing the events in a way they thought relayed the truth in the most entertaining way.

The first half of the festival is filled with supermodels, yachts and success. The first-time festival sells out 90% of its tickets in just 48 hours and Instagram’s top influencers create an epic hype around the event simply by posting an orange tile. Although the documentary does not fundamentally criticize the harmful role that social media can have as a whole, it still relays the sinister part that social media played in the success of ticket sales. Netflix demonstrate that although posing on Instagram in a scenario that makes your life look a lot more glamorous than it actually is is mostly harmless, it can also potentially be dangerous.

What Billy McFarland sold for millions of dollars was not a festival, but the idea of a festival. People handed over thousands of dollars so they could have a taste of the dream, which turned out to be camping out on wet mattresses in tents that were previously used to give shelter following Hurricane Katrina. When it is revealed to the ticket-holders just how much of a fail the Fyre festival actually is, it’s hard not to laugh at their misery.

And then just like that we feel guilty for laughing. Hundreds of festival-goers being locked in an airport with no food and water is more disturbing than funny. The hundreds of local workers who were unpaid for their labor is devastating, and the woman who gave her life’s savings to appease as many of the workers as she could is heartbreaking. Watching her tear up in front of the camera admitting it is painful for her to talk about the festival is a reminder of just how real and severe the impacts of McFarland’s mistakes were.

Is McFarland a bad person? The documentary leaves that question ambiguous. The Billy we see is a man who gets overexcited by an idea and gets trigger-happy, selling all sorts of promises he ultimately cannot deliver on. Billy would not give up on his dream, and while perseverance in the face of a dream can be admirable, when it came to the Fyre Festival, this perseverance was foolish, disastrous and ultimately criminal.

Overall, Netflix’s documentary is firing on all accounts and is one of the tensest recollections of business gone wrong we have seen. Billy McFarland is the Wolf of Wall Street without the profit, and he is just as entertaining to watch as Leonardo DeCaprio. The shocking story of the greatest party that never happened was told superbly by Netflix, and we’ll be talking about it for weeks to come.

5/5

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