Netflix has given a 13-episode series order to musical drama The Get Down from Baz Luhrmann, marking the Romeo + Juliet and The Great Gatsby director’s first music-driven project since the 2001 Moulin Rouge! as well as his first TV series. It is set to debut in 2016. The Get Down has been a log-time passion project for Luhrmann, who teamed for it with The Shield creator Shawn Ryan.
The Get Down will focus on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco — told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world…forever.
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