Baz Luhrmann's Music-Driven Series THE GET DOWN to Take Unscheduled Break in Production

Deadline reports that Baz Luhrmann's 13-episode music-driven series from Sony Pictures Television, THE GET DOWN, scheduled to debut in all Netflix territories in 2016, will take a short break to catch up on scripts.

The drama will wrap filming on its fourth episode in New York on Thursday and then take an unscheduled break to allow for additional script writing for future episodes. The hiatus will last one episode production cycle, the equivalent of nine days of shooting.

About the show:

THE GET DOWN will focus on 1970s New York City - broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped -- dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at THE BRINK of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco -- told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world...forever.

Luhrmann, will direct the first two episodes and the season finale and serve as executive producer. The series is also executive produced by Catherine Martin, Paul Watters, Thomas Kelly, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Shawn Ryan and Marney Hochman.