Lars, dejected, declines to attend the boat party thrown for all the finalists and sits disappointed on the dock as Sigrit tries to comfort him. On the outskirts of Húsavík, Sigrit, who believes in the old Icelandic tradition of elves, asks the elves for help to get them into the contest this is in the hope that if Fire Saga wins, Lars will finally return Sigrit's romantic feelings for him.ĭue to technical difficulties, Fire Saga's performance at Söngvakeppnin is a disaster, and they end up not winning.
Lars is so ecstatic that he rings the bell tower, and he is subsequently arrested for signaling an emergency in an act of mischief, but Sigrit convinces the police officers to release him. The pair apply and are randomly selected to take part in Söngvakeppnin, the Icelandic pre-selection for Eurovision. Sigrit's mother also disapproves of their partnership, saying that Lars is holding Sigrit back, and that she will never hit the "Speorg Note"-a note that can only be sung when being your truest self-when singing with him. Lars, in particular, is deeply into his "art", but at the local bar where they play, the only song the audience wants to hear is the suggestive nonsense song "Ja Ja Ding Dong". Lars has one dream: to win the Eurovision Song Contest. In the small town of Húsavík, Iceland, Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdóttir, best friends since childhood, make music together as the band Fire Saga, much to the dismay of Lars' widowed father, Erick. ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy.
This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. The film received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 93rd Academy Awards (for " Husavik"). The Story of Fire Saga received mixed reviews from critics (who praised the original music but criticised the two-hour runtime), but had a positive reception from many Eurovision fans. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 contest was cancelled, and the film was subsequently released a month later, on June 26, on Netflix. The Story of Fire Saga was initially scheduled for a May 2020 release to coincide with the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The film follows the personally close Icelandic singers Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdóttir as they are given the chance to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is a 2020 American romantic musical fantasy comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele, and starring Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Dan Stevens, Melissanthi Mahut, Mikael Persbrandt, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Graham Norton, Demi Lovato, and Pierce Brosnan.