Travis Scott and thousands of others’ lives changed on the night of Nov. 5, 2021, at the rapper’s Astroworld Festival in his hometown of Houston. The event left 10 festivalgoers dead and hundreds more injured following a lethal crowd surge.
Billboard can report that the events surrounding the tragic festival at NRG Park will be featured in the first episode of Netflix’s upcoming anthology series Trainwreck.
Titled “The Astroworld Tragedy,” the episode will explore the concert’s failures from the perspective of those in the middle of the chaos, with input from survivors, mourning family members, paramedics and security guards.
Look for the premiere episode of the series to arrive on June 10. Yemi Bamiro is on board as director of “The Astroworld Tragedy,” while Hannah Poulter will serve as co-director and producer.
Eight individuals were pronounced dead at the scene in November 2021, and Harris County medical examiners confirmed that two more people died as a result of their injuries days later. The official cause of death was listed as compression asphyxia; the victims ranged in age from 9 to 27 years old. There were about 50,000 people who attended the festival in total.
Scott and Live Nation became the subject of a plethora of wrongful death lawsuits in the wake of the tragedy, all of which were settled by the parties by May 2024.
“I always think about it, those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the utmost,” Scott told GQ in 2023. “It has its moments where it gets rough and, yeah. You just feel for those people. And their families.”
The rest of the Trainwreck series is set to delve into other disasters, including “political scandals, media hoaxes, cult-like corporations and reality TV” debacles, according to the press release. Episodes after “The Astrworld Tragedy” will be released by Netflix each of the following seven weeks, wrapping up on July 29.
Watch a trailer for Trainwreck below.
