The 'Great Gatsby' helmer will serve as the director for the first two episodes and will be back behind the lens for the season finale.
- February 6, 2015
AceShowbiz -
A hip-hop drama series from "The Great Gatsby" director Baz Luhrmann and "The Shield" creator Shawn Ryan is heading to Netflix. The project has got a 13 one-hour episode order with Luhrmann directing the first two episodes and the season finale. It is due to premiere in 2016.
The series is set in New York City during the 1970s. It follows South Bronx teenagers armed with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers, and spray cans in the broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped city. The story will be told through their lives and music.
"I have been contemplating and working on now for over 10 years. Throughout, I've been obsessed with the idea of how a city in its lowest moment, forgotten and half destroyed, could give birth to such creativity and originality in music, art and culture," Luhrmann said in a statement.
