Netflix Acquires The Rights To One Hundred Years Of Solitude

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Netflix has just scored a goal when announcing that it has acquired the rights to the classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude from the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez to be brought to the small screen. This was announced this Wednesday by company representatives to The New York Times.

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1982) born in Aracataca published what is considered his masterpiece in 1967 and for decades has been in the sights of Hollywood and attached to be able to bring it to the screen, without so far nobody would have made it.

According to multiple sources, it was the children of the writer Rodrigo and Gonzalo García who accepted Netflix's offer, yes, with conditions. The first is that the production be done in Spanish, to obey the demands of the writer who died in 2014.

Then come the locations: accordingly, the series will be filmed in Colombia and the author's two scions will serve as executive producers.

"The quality and prestige of the series and limited series has grown a lot in the past three or four years," Rodrigo García told The New York Times. "Netflix was one of the first [companies] to show that people are eager to watch series produced in foreign languages with subtitles."

Despite the fact that the novel Love in the Time of Cholera had already been brought to the screen, García Márquez resisted all his life that One Hundred Years … was also adapted, since he apparently feared that the story of multigenerational magical realism could not be interpreted appropriately and lose its meaning.

For his part, Francisco Ramos, vice president of Spanish productions of the platform assured the same newspaper that Netflix will only hire Latin American talent to produce the series. "We know that it will be magical and important for Colombia and Latin America, but the novel is universal."