The trailer for A hundred years of solitude has arrived, giving us a glimpse of the first official screen adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s magnum opus.
A hundred years of solitude follows the Buendía family in Macondo, a fictional Colombian town founded by their patriarch José Arcadio Buendía (Marco González). NetflixThe 16-episode magical realist series will follow several generations of the family as they face love, war and a curse that has confined them to a century of isolation.
Originally published in 1967, A hundred years of solitude is a much-loved and highly influential novel that contributed to García Márquez being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. However, the author was reluctant to grant the film rights until his death in 2014, fearing that the story would not be successful. would fit into a traditional cinematographic structure and that it would not be filmed in Spanish.
His estate has now allowed Netflix to adapt the novelwith García Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, serving as executive producers of the series.
“In today’s golden age of series, with the level of talented writing and directing, the cinematic quality of the content and the global audience’s acceptance of foreign language programming, the timing couldn’t be better ( for a screen adaptation of A hundred years of solitude),” García said when the series was first announced in 2019.
A hundred years of solitude will be available to stream on Netflix later this year.
