A series that, without a doubt, lovers of classic literature are waiting with great anticipation is the so-called Macondosince it will be based on the work that elevated Gabriel García Márquez as one of the great writers of the last century, One hundred years of solitude.
Through the platform streaming Netflix we will be able to enjoy this wonderful adaptation, which we hope will be told as the great writer would have liked. Without a doubt, this will be the case, since García Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, will be executive producers of the project, which will be filmed mainly in Colombia.
For decades, our father was reluctant to give up the film rights to ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ because he believed it was impossible to make under the time constraints of a movie and that producing it in a language other than Spanish would not do it justice.
But, in the current golden age of series, with the level of talented writers and directors, the cinematic quality, and the huge worldwide reception of foreign language content, the time couldn’t be better to bring an adaptation to Netflix’s global audiences. .
For his part, Francisco Ramos, vice president of International Originals in Spanish at Netflix, mentioned in a statement how grateful they are that their platform has been chosen to develop the ambitious project.
We feel incredibly honored to be entrusted with the first film adaptation of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, a timeless and iconic story from Latin America that we are thrilled to share with the world.
A magical story that tells the adventures of the Buendía family, who were the founders of an incredible city that the author narrates in his magnificent style. It was precisely the name of this place that was taken as the title for the series.
Macondo was then a village of twenty mud and cañabrava houses built on the banks of a river with clear waters that rushed down a bed of polished stones, white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names and to mention them you had to point your finger at them.
Loneliness had selected her memories and incinerated the numbing heaps of nostalgic garbage that life had accumulated in her heart and had purified, magnified and eternalized the others, the most bitter.
With this story, published for the first time in 1967, the writer was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Just this year marks the 40th anniversary of that event and what better way to celebrate it than to put the author’s work on the reach of millions of viewers.