{"id":244541,"date":"2025-10-22T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:58:08","slug":"billy-mcfarland-fyre-festival-2-documentary-in-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244541\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy McFarland FYRE Festival 2 Documentary in Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Billy McFarland<br \/>\n                          FYRE Festival 2 Documentary Coming Soon<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published October 22, 2025 2:00 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/519c0e614c0d40f1b6a52489c7f28995_md.jpg\" alt=\"102225_fyre_festival_2_trailer_kal-v2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Hiami Films and Think Global Media Group<\/p>\n<p>Break out the popcorn, we&#8217;ve got a can&#8217;t-miss train-wreck documentary coming through &#8230; it&#8217;s the latest installment in the ongoing saga of the Fyre Festival &#8230; and we&#8217;ve got a sneak peek of the impending drama!<\/p>\n<p>Billy McFarland tells TMZ &#8230; he&#8217;s been filming a new documentary as he attempts to launch PHNX, a December festival he&#8217;s billing as his big comeback. Billy says he&#8217;s rented an island and that cameras are following every move &#8230; waiting to see if it&#8217;s a redemption story &#8230; or another disaster.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250715_6ce885dd18a34f62a1ac8d482137b1dc\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:45293c0f-f8d3-45f0-bb73-9f7fb16c7741\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6ce885dd18a34f62a1ac8d482137b1dc_md.jpg\" alt=\"billy mcfarland sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to drop by late December or early January, and we&#8217;re told the filmmakers are currently in discussions with multiple streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6d1738879fa445aa936226ba3d9931f6_md.jpg\" alt=\"030525_billy_mcfarland_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Billy McFarland<\/p>\n<p>Titled &#8220;FYRE 2,&#8221; the doc will explore one of the most infamous comeback attempts in entertainment history. McFarland has given full access to producers at Think Global Media Group and HIAMI Films, who&#8217;ve obtained thousands of hours of never-before-seen footage, including secret meetings with the Mexican government, artist negotiations, and behind-the-scenes moments from years of planning the reboot.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the film will pose the ultimate question &#8230; &#8220;Did Billy scam again, or was he scammed by Mexico?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <a id=\"gallery-link-84baeab1-63e4-562d-8602-7b588849e8d5\" class=\"media-link gallery-block__link js-track-link js-click-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2017\/04\/28\/fyre-festival-fail\/\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:gallery:84baeab1-63e4-562d-8602-7b588849e8d5\" data-context=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;gallery-block&quot;,&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;}\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:45293c0f-f8d3-45f0-bb73-9f7fb16c7741\" data-gallery-layout=\"carousel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cc68346598fd49e1bf3767e6c58aadab_md.jpg\" alt=\"Fyre Festival Fail\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid gallery-block__img-fluid img-aspect-4by3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The doc captures McFarland&#8217;s so-called &#8220;FYRE Survival Training,&#8221; including a zero-gravity concert and airstrip performance in New York, helicopter jumps in Miami, and exclusive sessions with Grammy-nominated artists creating the original track &#8220;Onboa47rd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the cameras haven&#8217;t stopped &#8230; we&#8217;re told crews have boots on the ground in Honduras, documenting Billy&#8217;s new &#8220;FYRE 3&#8221; concept &#8212; branded as PHNX &#8212; as he returns to the Caribbean for the first time in eight years, scouting locations through Utila and the Turks &amp; Caicos for what he calls the next chapter of the FYRE saga.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall &#8230; Billy&#8217;s seemingly never-ending effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/03\/05\/billy-mcfarland-fyre-festival-2-isla-mujeres-mexican-tourism-board\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stage Fyre Fest 2<\/a> ended in failure this year, though the wannabe mogul did manage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/15\/billy-mcfarland-sells-fyre-festival-brand-ebay\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sell the rights to the brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This new doc will serve as the sequel to the virally successful first expos\u00e9 &#8212; &#8220;Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened&#8221; &#8212; that chronicled the disaster and aftermath of the 2017 FYRE Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s a resurrection or a repeat disaster, this is the story we&#8217;ve all been waiting for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy McFarland FYRE Festival 2 Documentary Coming Soon Published October 22, 2025 2:00 PM PDT Play video content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-244541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}