Five years after Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s death, Netflix announces the acquisition to the rights to his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, to create a series adaptation. The novel that has never been adapted to the screen before, sold around fifty million copies worldwide, earning its author the Nobel Prize. The series will be filmed in Spanish-language and set mainly in Colombia. Netflix hasn’t specified if the series will take place in the mythical Aracataca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s birthplace, in the book renamed Macondo. García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers on the series.
Netflix launches a series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude
