'One Hundred Years of Solitude' coming to Netflix!

Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude was first published in 1967, and is often thought of as one of the most significant works of modern literature. The Nobel Prize winning writer was approached again and again for film rights to the story during his lifetime but refused all offers, worried that the expansive, multi-generational novel would lose its essence when constrained by visual storytelling.

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The Colombian author also insisted that if an adaptation would take place then it must be in Spanish. Since his death, García Márquez’s two sons have been in control of the work and have decided to bring their father’s novel to the small screen. The brothers will be executive producers on the project with Netflix, and say they have decided to open a new “great chapter” stating:

“In the last three or four years, the level and prestige and success of series and limited series has grown so much . . . Netflix was among the first to prove that people are more willing than ever to see series that are produced in foreign languages with subtitles. All that seems to be a problem that is no longer a problem.”

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