Wheeler produced and coordinated all the music heard in the show on top of writing his own.
Told through the lives and music of a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens, The Get Down is a mythic saga of the transformation of 1970s New York City.
Following on the heels of Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge) and Carey Mulligan (The Great Gatsby), Baz Luhrmann has discovered his new leading lady, an 18-year-old who will make her acting debut in The Get Down.
Baz Luhrmann has started the casting search for the leads for The Get Down, the 13-part musical drama commissioned by Netflix.
Baz Luhrmann will make his TV debut with The Get Down, a 13-episode musical drama commissioned by Netflix which will trace the emergence of the hip-hop, punk and disco movements in 1970s New York City.
Australian actor, Callan McAuliffe, who played the young Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby is set to headline Sanzhar Sultanov's new film Hacker.
Baz Luhrmann now occupies three of the top six slots in the list of Australia's top-grossing films on home turf.
Director Baz Luhrmann has given The Great Gatsby VFX Supervisor Chris Godfrey to share the 'before and after' reel of VFX used on Gatsby.