"One Hundred Years of Solitude" becomes a TV series. Netflix announces it has acquired the rights to produce the 67 novel by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him"One Hundred Years of Solitude" becomes a TV series. Netflix announces that it has acquired the rights to produce the '67 novel of the Colombian script Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It will be the first time that the novel will be adapted for the screen and the children of the writer Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, will be the executive producers.
In the past, many had asked for the rights of the novel to Gabriel García Márquez, but he had always been reluctant because he did not believe that a film could be born from it, both due to time limits and because he was convinced that producing it in a language other than Spanish would not be the same thing.
But now the children think differently.
“Over the past three or four years, the level and prestige and success of series and limited series have grown so much. Netflix was among the first to show that people are more willing than ever to see series produced in foreign languages with subtitles, ”García said.
Netflix will therefore be the first attempt to bring to the screen the story of the seven generations of the Buendía family, whose progenitor José Arcadio is indeed the founder of the town on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the country that will serve as the setting for almost all the novels. subsequent.
Still a mystery about the names of screenwriters and actors, but Francisco Ramos, vice president for Spanish content at Netflix has assured that the intention is to collaborate with the best Latin American performers.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) is considered one of the most significant works of twentieth-century literature. The whole story is told with one elaborate and personal style, and was written in just 8 months.
Originally published by the South American publishing house in Buenos Aires in June 1967, the novel sold 8 copies in 2 weeks. Then translated into 46 languages has exceeded over 50 million copies. One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered a cornerstone of magical realism.
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Dominella Trunfio
