Watch Ja Rule’s Notorious Music Festival Fall Apart in Netflix’s “Fyre" Trailer

In one of the most bizarre stories of 2017 (and that’s saying something), rapper Ja Rule and bona fide swindler Billy McFarland organized a music festival that was advertised as high-class experience and was meant to promote the Fyre app. With the help of multiple Instagram personalities and celebrities, the event gathered a substantial crowd that traveled to an island in the Bahamas only to discover that the accommodations were less than luxurious, the food was far from gourmet, and the whole thing was falling apart.

Now documentarian Chris Smith, known from previous works such as “American Movie” and “Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond,” has set out to try to understand how this madman’s tale of American consumerism and festival culture came to be. Set to be released on Netflix on January 18, “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” promises to be an interesting and highly entertaining look at what was probably the worst music festival of the decade.