Wheeler produced and coordinated all the music heard in the show on top of writing his own.
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's Netflix original series The Get Down has cast its first four young male leads, a rag tag group of teenagers who are wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 70s.
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.