Baz Luhrmann music drama series “The Get Down” coming to Netflix

In what is touted as his first music-driven drama since the 2001 hit Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann will be bringing the 13-episode, one-hour drama The Get Down to Netflix in 2016. The series is set in 1970s New York City, and Luhrmann will be directing the first two episodes, and the season finale, while also serving as executive producer.

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From Netflix:

“[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.”

Baz Luhrmann said in a release for the series: “In this golden era of TV, the Netflix culture puts no constraint on creative possibilities. So it is a natural home for The Get Down, a project I have been contemplating and working on now for over 10 years. Throughout, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of how a city in its lowest moment, forgotten and half destroyed, could give birth to such creativity and originality in music, art and culture. I’m thrilled to be working with my partners at Sony and collaborating with a team of extraordinary writers and musicians, many of whom grew up with and lived the story we’ve set out to tell.”

The Get Down will premiere on Netflix in all territories in 2016.