Netflix has acquired the rights to the acclaimed 1967 novel, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'
Netflix has acquired the rights to Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez's acclaimed novel,"One Hundred Years of Solitude."
The streaming giant announced on Wednesday that it will develop a Spanish-language TV series based on the novel.The streaming giant announced on Wednesday that it had acquired the rights to"One Hundred Years of Solitude," the acclaimed 1967 novel by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez.
Netflix will develop"One Hundred Years of Solitude" into a Spanish-language TV series filmed in Colombia, with Márquez's sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha, on board as executive producers. The novel is considered to be one of the most important works of the 20th century. Since it was first published, it has been translated into 46 different languages and sold 50 million copies, Netflix said.
"For decades our father was reluctant to sell the film rights to Cien Años de Soledad 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," Garcia said in a statement.
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