Netflix has already set a release date for A hundred years of solitude, one of its highlights of 2024 and perhaps one of its toughest series. And by adapting the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez It was an almost impossible challenge, which is why, during his lifetime, the Colombian author never wanted to sell the rights to his most popular novel. But in the end we will be able to see the city of Macondo and all its inhabitants in real images. Nobel Prize fans are as excited as they are fearful of this fiction directed by Laura Mora (The kings of the world) and Alex García López (The Witcher) and is produced by Dynamo. The series will be released in two parts and with eight episodes each and we will be able to see the first one from December 11. of this year. The platform of streaming has already released a new preview in which it delves deeper into the visual aspect of the product. For those of us who love A hundred years of solitudeA priori, the images don’t look bad at all. It’s a real relief. Add that the foundry is led by Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, Marco González, Leonardo Soto, Susana Morales, Ella Becerra, Carlos Suárez, Moreno Borja And Santiago Vasquez.
Published in 1967, A hundred years of solitude is one of the emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Considered a masterpiece of Latin American and universal literature and of enormous popular impact, it has more than 50 million copies sold and translations to more than 40 languages.
Although García Márquez had no problem adapting his other novels to cinema (Of love and shadow, The colonel has no one to write to him either Love in the time of cholera), it is true that he always resisted selling the rights to One Hundred Years of Solitude, and it is a very difficult text to translate into images given its narrative complexity.
But after the Nobel Prize winner’s death, his family decided to bring back the fantasy world of A hundred years of solitude in cinematographic language and, in fact, two of the writer’s children, Rodrigo and Gonzaloare the executive producers of the Netflix project.
The company of streaming today announced the premiere date of the series A hundred years of solitude this will have two parts of eight episodes each and will have its first part on December 11. The fiction is produced by Laura Mora (The kings of the world) And Alex Garcia Lopez (The Witcher) and produced by Dynamo. One Hundred Years of Solitude represents one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in Latin American history. The series was filmed entirely in Colombia.
Laura Mora said: “As a filmmaker, as a Colombian, it has been an honor and a huge challenge to work on a project as complex and responsible as A hundred years of solitudealways trying to understand the difference between literary and audiovisual language, to be able to construct images that contain something of the beauty, poetry and depth of a work that has marked the whole world. We did it with love and respect for the novel, with the help of an exceptional technical and human team.
For his part, Alex García López, the other director of A hundred years of solitudeassured that: “Leading this project was quite a challenge and at the same time an adventure, finally in life you have to take risks to give meaning to what you do. When I immersed myself in adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude, my intention was to create something authentic on par with an international production, since the story deserves it.
About “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
Marrying against their parents’ wishes, cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán leave their town and embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian city on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they call Macondo. Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical people, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war and the fear of a terrible curse which condemns them, without any hope, to a hundred years of solitude. .
What can we expect from the adaptation?
Knowing that it is one of the masterpieces of universal literature, many voices will be raised against the series, but, first, we must see it, and, secondly, we must keep in mind the mind that audiovisual is a different language from literary. If you try to be too faithful to the original, you risk not being cinematic. If you change too much, you offend the fans. We don’t know what One Hundred Years of Solitude will ultimately be like, but whatever the outcome, the novel is still there, eternal.
