Moulin Rogue! director Baz Luhrmann is teaming up with Netflix for his first television series which is set in 1970s Manhattan.

The Get Down is a “music-driven drama” with 13 hour long episodes ordered by Netflix for a debut in 2016.

According to a press release, 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 is best known for several major film projects including Romeo + Juliet and 2013’s The Great Gatsby. In addition to serving as executive producer, Luhrmann will direct the first two episodes and the season finale of The Get Down.

Said the director in a statement, “In this golden era of TV, the Netflix culture puts no constraint on creative possibilities. So it is a natural home for The Get Down, a project I have been contemplating and working on now for over 10 years. Throughout, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of how a city in its lowest moment, forgotten and half destroyed, could give birth to such creativity and originality in music, art and culture. I’m thrilled to be working with my partners at Sony and collaborating with a team of extraordinary writers and musicians, many of whom grew up with and lived the story we’ve set out to tell.”

A teaser trailer gives you a sense of The Get Down:

Luhrmann’s foray into television comes just a couple of weeks after famed director Woody Allen announced he’s teaming up with Amazon for his first-ever TV series.