‘The Get Down’ Season Two: Producers Reveal Vision for New Season and Time Jump

13 August 2016 12:59 PM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »

Baz Luhrmann’s first television venture “The Get Down” is a musical drama that follows a ragtag group of teenagers who run wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s. The highly-anticipated series was just released on Netflix; and even though a second season has yet to be confirmed, the show’s producers are already brainstorming on what’s next.

Supervising producer/writer Nelson George told Entertainment Weekly what he’d like to focus on in Season 2 and teased that they would probably jump into the early ‘80s.

“I was there during the beginnings of Run-d.M.C. I was there for Prince and Michael Jackson. I think there is a hell of a story. And also quite honestly the era of crack which began you know around ’85,” stated George, who worked at Billboard during that time period. “So I think if you look at Books [Justice Smith] and »

- Liz Calvario

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