Netflix Acquires the Rights to ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Netflix has announced an upcoming scripted drama called “One Hundred Years of Solitude” based on novel of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s. The book was first published in 1967 and since that time has sold an estimated 50 million copies around the world and has been translated into 46 languages*.

García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers on the series, which will be filmed mainly in Colombia.

“For decades our father was reluctant to sell the film rights to Cien Años 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. “But in the current golden age of series, with the level of talented writing and directing, the cinematic quality of content, and the acceptance by worldwide audiences of programs in foreign languages, the time could not be better to bring an adaptation to the extraordinary global viewership that Netflix provides. We are excited to support Netflix and the filmmakers in this venture, and eager to see the final product.”

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula Iguarán, his wife (and first cousin), leave Riohacha, Columbia. after Arcadio kills Prudencio Aguilar after a cockfight, for suggesting Arcadio was impotent. One night of their emigration journey, while camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of “Macondo”, a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to establish Macondo at the riverside; after days of wandering the jungle, José Arcadio Buendía’s founding of Macondo is utopic.