Gabriel García Márquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is coming to Netflix

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The Nobel Prize winner was concerned that making a movie of his landmark novel in a language other than Spanish would not do it justice.

Gabriel García Márquez outside his house in Mexico City on his 87th birthday, March 6, 2014. He died the following month.The celebrated Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez was reluctant to sell the rights to his 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” according to his son Rodrigo García.

García’s sons Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers of the project, which will mainly be filmed in Colombia. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — or"Cien Años de Soledad" — is the saga of the multigenerational Buendía family, whose patriarch José Arcadio Buendía finds Macondo, a fictitious town in Colombia. It's the best-known novel in the style known as magical realism, which originated in Latin America and blends supernatural or fantastical elements into an otherwise realistic setting.

 

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CynVira This is one of the first books I felt compelled to read twice. It was spellbinding and I’m not sure if any film version can do it justice, but it sounds like they are in good hands.

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It feels like it will be a tough book to translate on to screen. But, hopefully, they are able to do something interesting with it.

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