One Hundred Years of Solitude will not be the first García Márquez work to be adapted for the screen.
Netflix has acquired the rights to Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal One Hundred Years of Solitude to create the first screen adaptation of the author’s 1967 masterpiece.
Acquiring rights to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude has been a hard-fought contest.
“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.