Thursday, March 7, 2019

Netflix to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez


Netflix has acquired the rights to Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal One Hundred Years of Solitude to create the first screen adaptation of the author’s 1967 masterpiece.
 The streaming company announced on Wednesday that the book will be adapted into a Spanish-language series and filmed largely in the Nobel prize-winning author’s home country of Colombia, with García Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, serving as executive producers. Acquiring rights to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude has been a hard-fought contest. García said that his father was sceptical of the sprawling magical realist novel’s capacity to fit within a traditional film structure, and wanted the story to be told in Spanish.
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