The first ever screen adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is coming to Netflix.
Netflix will be turning the 1967 magical realist masterpiece into a Spanish language original series, the company said in a press release. The series will be shot mainly in Márquez’s home country of Colombia, and will have the author’s two sons as executive producers.
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Rodrigo García, Márquez’s eldest son, said that while their father, who passed away in 2014, was reluctant to sell the rights to his novel, the family trusts that the Netflix production will do his work justice. Read more…
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