Now comes news that award winning Hollywood film director Baz Luhrmann ('Moulin Rogue!' 'Romeo & Juliet' 'The Great Gatsby') is making an original series for Netflix called 'The Get Down', looking closely at New York in the late 1070's with the emergence of hip hop, disco and the cultural art scene. The story will focus on young dancers, musicians and graffiti artists. Legendary hip hop dj Grandmaster Flash, who serves as an associate producer, will actually have an actor play a younger version of himself on the show. Flash noted that he was highly impressed with Luhrmann's extremely high standard of making sure everything on screen was as authentic as possible, saying "We're talking about a time-span of information that hasn't been asked about by most journalists." He has long felt that this important period during hip hop's infancy in the 70's has not been given the coverage it so richly deserves. He added, "When it comes to hip hop there was always an misunderstanding of (the) who, what, where, why and when".
Just a look at Baz Luhrmann's impressive movie credits will leave no one in any doubt that music has always played a very important role in his work, so expectations are naturally high for this project. I can't wait....
'The Get Down' will be shown on Netflix in 2016.