"The Get Down" Netflix series from Baz Luhrmann

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Baz Luhrmann ( Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby and my personal favorite Strictly Ballroom ) lands a 13 episode deal with Netflix for his 1970's Bronx based series The Get Down. Shawn Ryan ( The Shield, The Unit ) is Executive Producer on the series. Baz initially shopped this series around in late 2013 but to no avail. Fox would have been ideal but it has Empire.
At the moment the series is slated for release in early 2016.


The breakdown of The Get Down..

The Get Down will focus on 1970s New York — 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.