Netflix to adapt García Márquez’s; One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Variety- Netflix to Adapt Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ as Series

Netflix has acquired rights to adapt Gabriel García Márquez’s masterwork “One Hundred Years of Solitude” as a new series. The project marks the first screen adaptation of the landmark novel.

Netflix will produce a Spanish-language original series based on the novel, first published in 1967. It has since sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 46 languages. The Nobel Prize-winning author died in 2014 at 87.

García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers on the series, which will be filmed mainly in Colombia. Netflix didn’t announce other details for the “One Hundred Years of Solitude” project.

“For decades our father was reluctant to sell the film rights to ‘Cien Años de Soledad’ because he believed that it could not be made under the time constraints of a feature film, or that producing it in a language other than Spanish would not do it justice,” Rodrigo Garcia said in a statement.
But, he added, “in the current golden age of series, with the level of talented writing and directing, the cinematic quality of content, and the acceptance by worldwide audiences of programs in foreign languages, the time could not be better to bring an adaptation to the extraordinary global viewership that Netflix provides.

Done right with Magic-Realism, and other uhm elements, this epic generation spanning drama is potentially on some dramatic level; pretty much the latin american sprawling soap-opera of The Sound and the Fury , Absalom! Gone With the Wind meets Game of Thrones. LOL!
Just substitute dragons with butterflies, and the throne with an old rocking chair. LOL!
I can see why they chose it. Fantastic!

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Where are the latinx here? Who else loves this masterpiece?

I love, love, love this, but it's hard for me to see the magical realism working here. We'll see, I guess...

 

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Mi gente Latina somos todos Latinos
Beautifully romantic fluid language already.

I love, love, love this, but it's hard for me to see the magical realism working here.

Better conveyed here, looks beautiful.

Though won't be for everyone, I'm really looking forward to it. Cast looks fantastic.
Traveled to Aracataca when I was young, just to see the cuna where he was born, now apparently there is a whole museum there.