‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’: Netflix Unveils Teaser For Series Adaptation Of Gabriel García Marquez’s Magical Realist Masterpiece

Stewart Clarke
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A sneak peek of Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has been released. The series adaptation of the Gabriel García Marquez novel bows on the streamer later this year.

The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and tells the story of the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

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The Spanish-language series was filmed in Colombia with support from the family of García Marquez, whose acclaimed novel has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 40 languages. Netflix released a brief teaser in 2022 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of García Marquez winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the new teaser reveals much more.

The new video shows Aureliano Babilonia as he reads from the mythical diary of Melquiades before transporting viewers to Macondo to witness Colonel Aureliano Buendía standing before a firing squad while he remembers the afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

It was revealed in 2019 that Netflix had landed the rights to adapt the book, which has not been adapted for the screen previously. José Rivera, Natalia Santa, Camila Brugés, María Camila Arias and Albatrós González wrote the series. Netflix has said it “is one of the most ambitious projects in Latin America to date, brought to life by the most talented artists from Colombia and LATAM.”

Alex García López and Laura Mora co-direct the 16-episode project, which is produced by Colombian production company Dynamo.

A swathe of the cast feature in the teaser including Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Leonardo Soto (José Arcadio son), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán), Moreno Borja (Melquiades), Santiago Vásquez (teenage Aureliano Buendía).

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