Welcome to Eden: Is Inspired By True Story of Fyre Festival That Ended In Chaos and Where Is Paradisiacal Island Located
Welcome to Eden took us to a paradisiacal island, which exists in the real world, where an exclusive party becomes a nightmare and prison for several of the guests. This Netflix series plays with science fiction and mystery, but it is also inspired by a true event. Welcome to Eden immersed us in the elaborate plan of Astrid and Erik to create a self-sufficient community with members who are often forced to be part of it and, if they do not want to do so, the consequences can be fatal. The pretext to add new candidates to this peculiar community arises from an exclusive party on a remote island and precisely this fact is inspired by a real event. We tell you.
Welcome to Eden Is Inspired By A Real-Life Festival
“An island. An exclusive party. A new flavor. Welcome to the trip of your life Blue Eden” reads Zoa as she marvels at the video of her inviting her to join the group of guys who will be able to enjoy an incredible party on an island. Similarly, in 2017, the Fyre Festival was promoting an epic and memorable party that no one should miss. However, the reality was different, just like in the Netflix series.
Similarly, in 2017, the Fyre Festival According to the creators of ‘Welcome to Edén’, Joaquín Górriz and Guillermo López Sánchez, this music festival was a great inspiration to create the series. Thanks to the Netflix documentary that further exposed the fraud that was this event, ‘FYRE: The most exclusive party that never happened, the creators found the starting point for their series.
“We were very inspired by a Netflix documentary about the Fyre Festival, a festival that… was a disaster,” they explained to SensaCine.
This Festival was sold as the best in the world, but in the end, it ended up being a nightmare for the attendees, a perfect premise to present Welcome to Eden.
“They had been told that they were going to make the trip of their lives and indeed it is, but with the dimension that we want to give it because from the beginning we realize that there is something shady behind it.”
Fyre Festival: The Event That Ended In Chaos And Lawsuits
The Fyre Festival seemed to be the hottest event to have in 2017. Models like Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, and Emily Ratajkowski promoted this event created by Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule. In the promotional video, two weekends were promised with “the best of food, art, music, and adventure” on a private island in the Bahamas, which once belonged to Pablo Escobar.
The panoramic views of the paradisiacal island, the beautiful models on yachts and the shore of the beach, people enjoying concerts and water sports, private jets, and more luxuries sweetened the eyes of thousands who bought tickets ranging from 500 dollars to 12 thousand dollars per VIP tickets. However, once the first weekend of the Fyre Festival arrived, the attendees realized that they were victims of a big scam: the luxurious infrastructure that they were promised did not exist, the few toilets that were there were a fiasco, and they needed staff medical, cell phone, internet service, running water, transportation, lighting and more.
The exclusive meal that was supposed to be prepared by renowned chefs ended up being two slices of bread, cheese, and a little salad. Fyre Festival attendees lived an experience they would never forget, but how terrible it was, which even went to court. In the end, the organizers of the festival were sued and investigated by the FBI and had to pay millions in compensation to those affected.
Where is the island From Welcome to Eden?
The creators of the series were looking for a place that had paradisiacal characteristics, but that at the same time emitted a dire and abandoned vibe. That was how they decided that the ideal place to develop the story was Lanzarote. But where is this island located? Lanzarote is one of the eight islands that make up the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Spain, northwest of Africa, and off the coast of Morocco.
The Canary Islands are a Spanish autonomous community, so it makes sense that Lanzarote has been chosen for the production of a Netflix Spain series. It should be noted that the main location in which the recordings were carried out was in Caletón Blanco, a spectacular beach that is located in the north of the island. This space corresponds to the main beach that can be seen in ‘Welcome to Eden‘, where the Eden parties are held. Martí Marcos, location manager for the series, explained to the Repsol Guide some of the site’s features:
You can bathe in blue waters that look like you’re in the Caribbean and when it’s low tide, you can enter and walk hundreds of meters inland.
Like the other beaches on the island, Lanzarote has access for tourists. In addition, there are car parks and public transport services that can take you to its shores. If something characterizes Lanzarote, it is that it is an island of volcanoes, among which the Volcán del Cuervo stands out. This can be seen in Welcome to Eden, in a scene where the characters cross a path until they reach the interior of the crater. Well, this tour is open to everyone and is one of the most popular attractions among visitors.
In addition, it has several petrified lava cliffs, transparent turquoise waters, and golden sand. Its climate is subtropical and sub-desert and it usually has very stable temperatures. Martí Marcos highlighted that this island, due to its characteristics, is perfect for the plot of Welcome to Eden:
First of all, our island is a paradise island. And secondly, it is also a mysterious island, on which all the characters will end up feeling trapped. Lanzarote fulfills these two ideas: it is both an earthly paradise, but it is also very Martian, arid, with its volcanoes and black-earth beaches. A very lunar landscape.
