Baz Luhrmann’s next dazzling project, The Get Down, looks better suited to a multiplex movie theatre than a Macbook screen. Nevertheless, the latest trailer for the director’s eagerly anticipated Netflix series about a crew of teenagers in 70s South Bronx is quite the splendid sensory overload, no matter what device you’re watching on. The musical drama is set in the broken down borough one sweltering summer in ’77, as New York City was on the brink of bankruptcy, The Ramones filmed Live at CBGB, and hip-hop and disco were in their uptown infancy. Safe to say the series is going to have a pretty bangin’ soundtrack to complement the sights of Studio 54, Disco Fever, and the South Bronx tenements.
The cast so far includes Justice Smith, Herizen Guardiola, Shameik Moore, and Skylan Brooks, while Jaden Smith has also signed on as a series regular. The Get Down hits Netflix on August 12, 2016.
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Text Hannah Ongley