Marvel director and pop-star wife to adapt Fyre festival nightmare into a musical

• Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are producing Fyre Fest: The Musical, a stage show that spoofs the disastrous 2017 music festival.
• The musical will be directed by Bryan Buckley, with Grammy-winning producer Paul Epworth composing the music.
• The original Fyre Festival was a luxury event that failed spectacularly, leaving attendees stranded with inadequate provisions and leading to organiser Billy McFarland's federal fraud conviction.
• Waititi humorously stated his motivation for the project was to "snatch some of that sweet American theater money", describing the idea as "exciting, weird, and potentially disastrous".
• Buckley noted that the Fyre Festival was a "spectacular failed endeavor" and promised that, unlike the original event, the musical "will actually be music or your money back".

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Taika Waititi and Rita Ora to turn Fyre Festival fiasco into a stage musical