The plans of Netflix and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez are far apart. The author wanted to publish his masterpiece with one two-minute episode per year for 100 years
A new Netflix project has an extremely bizarre backstory. When Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez was approached by Harvey Weinstein many years ago to film his award-winning masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Colombian was not keen on the idea.
However, according to an old interview with the now disgraced film producer in the Independent, the author would have agreed under an unusual condition: The movie version would not have been allowed to omit a chapter from the book and would have had to release a two-minute serial episode every year – for 100 years.
Netflix adapts the literary masterpiece with the author’s son as producer
So it’s no wonder Weinstein wasn’t interested in the project. Ten years after García Márquez’s death, Netflix is now taking on the ambitious project in a more conventional form and will soon be releasing the 16-part series adaptation One Hundred Years of Solitude. At least as a Spanish-language project, as the author had requested, and from a Colombian creative team.
(100 Years of Solitude)
Hundred Years of Solitude is about several generations of the Buendía family and the founding of the fictional village of Macondo. The narrative jumps back and forth between different time periods and characters from the mythical village. The adaptation does not yet have a specific start date.
The 1982 Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece is categorized as magical realism and is considered one of the most important books in Latin American literature. Rodrigo García, the author’s son, is one of the producers of the Netflix adaptation. A teaser trailer featuring Claudio Cataño as Colonel Aureliano Buendía was released on the tenth anniversary of Gabriel García Márquez’s death
