Netflix to Adapt Magic Realism Classic "One Hundred Years of Solitude" into a TV Series

Netflix recently announced that it has acquired the magical realism classic, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", a Latin American literary masterpiece that won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. It will be adapted into a TV series and put on the big screen. This is also the first adaptation of this masterpiece.

Netflix will produce an original Spanish-language series based on the novel. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was first published in 1967 and has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 46 languages. The author of the book, the master of Latin American magical realism Gabriel García Márquez, died in 2014 at the age of 87.

García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers of the series. The adaptation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" will be filmed primarily in Colombia. Netflix has not yet announced other details of the "One Hundred Years of Solitude" project.