First Trailer For Baz Luhrmann's 1970s Music-Infused Drama THE GET DOWN
Following his take on The Great Gatsby in 2013, director Baz Lurhmann is bringing his visual talents to Netflix for a New York-set, music-infused drama called The Get Down, which takes place in the 1970s and involves the burgeoning music scenes of hip-hop, punk, and disco. This is Lurhmann's first major TV project, so I'm hoping the extended run time will give him enough time to devote to other aspects of storytelling aside from the stylish visuals for which he's known. If the trailer is any indication, it appears that the show is a mixture of West Side Story, Dirty Dancing, and Footloose, but set in a black community. This should be a cool showcase for a bunch of up-and-coming actors, as well as established vets like Dexter's Jimmy Smits and Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito.
There's no specific release date set aside from the vague "2016," but check out the trailer and the official synopsis below:
The Get Down focuses 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 CBGB 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 — as told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city and the world…forever.