Bringing ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ to the Screen Took Decades—Here’s Why

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Bringing ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ to the Screen Took Decades—Here’s Why
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Gabriel García Márquez didn’t think his masterpiece could be adapted. His readers, and the country of Colombia, pray Netflix gets it right.

Gabo, as he’s commonly known in Latin America, was then in his late 30s and had published four books, but his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was a few years away. He had been mulling over the premise for a long time, and his confidence in the novel was unshakable.

There are no stars in the production, although many are respected local actors, including Claudio Cataño as Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Marleyda Soto as the older Úrsula Iguarán, and Diego Vásquez as the older José Arcadio Buendía. The nonactors prepared by attending theater workshops. Like the novel, the One Hundred Years series is sparing with dialogue.

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