Known as the director who brought back the musical genre in 2001 after the release of the Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor film "Moulin Rouge," Baz Luhrmann's next film sees him teaming up with on-demand streaming service and producing company Netflix, as they team up to create a musical drama.
The huge success of "Moulin Rouge!" brought about a good number of musicals in the next years following its release, such as the Academy Award-winning "Chicago" and most recently the Stephen Sondheim adaptation "Into the Woods," but the director hasn't ventured back into the genre in the big screen ever since, until the Baz Luhrmann next film.
In truth, Baz Luhrmann's next film is actually a television series, and according to Variety, it's a project that the man behind the 2013 "The Great Gatsby" adaptation has been trying to get made for a really long time, as Luhrmann himself has stated that he's been working on it for about ten years.
Vulture reports that Baz Luhrmann's next film project will be called "The Get Down," and it will be a musical period drama (not unlike the Kidman/McGregor film that saw the actress get her first Oscar nod), and it's been going around from network to network since at least December 2013, and Sony Pictures Television was showing it to multiple networks, with Netflix always being the top contender.
The Hollywood Reporter calls the series "a hip hop drama," dealing with artists who came of age in the Bronx back in the late 70s.
"[Netflix] is a natural home for The Get Down, a project I have been contemplating and working on now for over 10 years," said Luhrmann in a press release. "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. I'm thrilled to be working with my partners at Sony and collaborating with a team of extraordinary writers and musicians, many of whom grew up with and lived the story we've set out to tell."
Baz Luhrmann's next film project will air sometime in 2016, with 13 episodes.
