Netflix to Adapt Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' for TV
Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s signature novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is headed to Netflix.
The video streaming giant has acquired the rights to develop the literary classic, first published in
1967, as a Spanish-language TV series. Garcia Marquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha will executive produce the series, to be shot in Colombia.
"For decades our father was reluctant to sell the film rights to _Cien Anos de Soledad_ because he believed that it could not be made under the time constraints of a feature film, or that producing it in a language other than Spanish would not do it justice,” said Garcia in a statement.
Just over a half century since the Colombian writerGarcia Marquez's novel was published, it has sold an estimated 47 million copies, been translated into 46 languages and become a classic of Latin American literature.
Netflix has also launched a production hub in Madrid, Spain, which is set to be unveiled April 4.
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