![]() ![]() The 1981 novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, has been adapted for both film and Broadway musical. The author’s 1985 novel Love in the Time of Cholera was adapted for film in 2007, directed by Mike Newell and starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem and Benjamin Bratt. One Hundred Years of Solitude will not be the first García Márquez work to be adapted for the screen. ![]() Netflix has recently seen significant success with Spanish-language originals, such as the Oscar-winning film, Roma, and the Pablo Escobar series, Narcos. It became a defining work of magical realism and one of the most celebrated Latin American novels of the 20th century, having sold an estimated 47m copies and been translated into 46 languages. One Hundred Years of Solitude follows the Buendía dynasty, founders of the rural and isolated town of Macondo, and fuses fantastical and allegorical elements such as rains of yellow flowers, alchemy and religious apparitions, with realism, history and literary pastiche. “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.” ![]() “For decades our father was reluctant to sell the film rights to One Hundred Years of Solitude 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,” García said. ![]()
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