Netflix is dipping into the hip hop world but from a slightly different angle on what it takes to make it in that world. This time around the ever popular online network is getting into the game with The Get Down a weekly series that is sure to premiere to rave reviews.
Via 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.
Cast members include Justice Smith as Ezekiel, Shameik Moore as Shaolin Fantastic, Skylan Brooks as Ra Ra, Tremaine Brown, Jr. as Boo Boo and Herizen Guardiola as Mylene. Also today its being reported that Jaden Smith will be joining the series in the role of Marcus "Dizzee" Kipling a psychedelically talented and enigmatic graffiti writer raised in the South Bronx.
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.
Luhrmann, will direct the first two episodes and the season finale and serve as executive producer.
The 13-episode music-driven drama from Sony Pictures Television will debut in all Netflix territories April 2016.
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