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Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down coming to Netflix

Baz Luhrmann’s new series The Get Down will be coming to Netflix in 2016 it has been confirmed.

Th 13-episode original series is a drama from Sony Pictures Television that will focus on 1970s New York City. The official synopsis for the new series is:

Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them ā€“ 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.

ā€œIn 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, Iā€™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. Iā€™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 weā€™ve set out to tell,ā€ said Baz Luhrmann.

We’ll bring you more news on The Get Down as its released and with Luhrmann’s previous credits (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge) the series is sure to be one that can’t be missed.

Watch the first teaser for The Get Down below:

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