Moulin Rouge director helms a “mythic saga” set in ’70s New York.

Baz Luhrmann’s hip-hop drama The Get Down has been snapped up by streaming service Netflix. The 13-episode series, which has been in the pipeline since 2013, focuses on a rag-tag crew of teenagers growing up in the South Bronx at a time when the city was cash-strapped and plagued by violence, and follows them as they use their “verbal games, improvised dance steps, magic markers and spray cans” to “change the city, and the world, forever,” as billed by The Hollywood Reporter.

Luhrmann, the extravagant creator behind The Great Gatsby, Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, will direct the first two episodes and the series finale, and will be an executive producer alongside Shawn Ryan (The Shield, Terriers). Luhrmann also brings along Catherine Martin, the costume and production designer who worked on The Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge. Do not adjust your set, in other words.

Luhrmann commented: “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.”

The series, which is set to premiere in all territories in 2016, is one of several hip-hop dramas to make waves on US television lately, including Fox’s popular Empire and the 50 Cent-produced Power on Starz. Meanwhile, VH1 is working on The Breaks, a drama series adapted from Dan Charnas’ best-selling book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop.

Watch the teaser for The Get Down below.