Netflix has released a teaser for One Hundred Years of Solitude, an adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal 1967 novel of the same name.
The 16-part series will follow the multi-generational story of José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán’s family. When the two cousins wed against their families’ wishes, the two set out to establish a new town. Macondo plays host to future generations of Buendías, who live through love, madness and war.
The programme was shot in Colombia entirely in Spanish, with the support of García Márquez’s family. Claudio Cataño (A Thousand Fangs) appears in the teaser as the adult version of Colonel Aureliano Buendía.
The book, widely considered a masterpiece in magical realism, famously begins with the line: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Upon the author’s death in 2014, then-President Juan Manuel Santos remarked that García Márquez – affectionately known as Gabo – was “the greatest Colombian who ever lived.”
One Hundred Years of Solitude will be released on Netflix in 2024.
