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The 53-year-old Australian director has teamed up with executive producer and hip-hop star Nas and Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis for the project.

The Get Down has been one of Netflix’s most expensive series ever to make, and Luhrmann’s comments comes as this week rumours emerged that the production was embroiled in difficulties. (Boo Boo Kiping), Mamoudou Athie (Grandmaster Flash) and Jimmy Smits. In search of the flawless beat, we looked for ideal drum solos. I realized that it was too epic. “I’d edit the drum solos to the beat to create a musical bed”. “They were doing it because the world was saying, ‘You don’t exist.’ They were doing it because they were saying, ‘We exist'”. Music had no color.

Executive producer Nelson George noted that now, “Kids have laptops with digital files of music”. But if you’re mourning the loss of your window into the 1970s NY music scene, fear not – Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down is arriving in just a few weeks. The show will weave together their story with song and dance numbers, both original and of the time period, as a way to involve music in the story telling process. Together, they form a strong group of collaborators with ample hip-hop know-how between them.

The trailer ended with images of Ezekiel writing lyrics, Mylene singing and Grandmaster Flash ready to scratch and spin.

Will The Get Down get added to your binge queue? “There are conversations that took place between Baz and Flash that wound up in the script, nearly word for word”. “It’s not my story – I feel like I just curated it”. Variety broke down The Get Down’s receipts: In two-and-a-half years, the show suffered one calamity after another, all at a staggering cost.