The Get Down trailer: Netflix’s 70s disco drama from Baz Luhrmann looks like a lot of fun
A veritable smorgasbord of flares
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Your support makes all the difference.Netflix has released an extended trailer for The Get Down, a disco drama set in the Bronx in 1970s starring Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito and Jaden Smith.
‘Told through the lives and music of a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens,’ The Get Down is billed as ‘a mythic saga of the transformation of 1970s New York City.’
Bad Luhrmann is behind the camera, a man well-versed in both creating opulent party scenes (The Great Gatsby) and choreographing musical numbers (Moulin Rouge).
The story centre’s on Ezekiel (Justice Smith), a teenager sucked into the world of disco and bursting with talent and passion for his community and his art.
Esposito will play a local pastor, Smith an aspiring street artist and Jimmy Smits a Bronx political lobbyist.
It won’t all be mirror balls, patterned shirts and flares though, with the trailer teasing a lot of emotional strife for the characters and a good deal of guns-being-held-to-heads.
The Get Down is coming in 2016 but doesn’t yet have an official release date.
Netflix confirmed that it is now fully “global” this week, though claimed that it still a “prisoner to territorial licensing”.
“[We’re] moving quickly to have global availability of all content on Netflix,” a rep said on Twitter.
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