This is how incredible the new Netflix series could have been: one two-minute episode per year – for 100 years

A new Netflix project has an extremely bizarre history. When Nobel Prize winner for literature Gabriel García Márquez was contacted by Harvey Weinstein many years ago about his award-winning masterpiece A hundred years of loneliness to film, The Colombian was not keen on the idea.

However, according to an old interview with the now disgraced film producer in the Independent, the author would have agreed under an unusual condition: the film version would not have left out a chapter from the book and would have had to publish a two-minute serial episode every year – for 100 years.

Netflix is ​​adapting the literary masterpiece with the author’s son as a producer

No wonder Weinstein wasn’t interested in the project. Ten years after the death of García Márquez, Netflix is ​​now taking on the ambitious project in a more conventional form will be publishing soon 16-part series adaptation A hundred years of loneliness. At least as a Spanish-language project, as the author had wanted, and from a Colombian creative team.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is about several generations of the Buendía family and the founding of the fictional village of Macondo. The narrative jumps back and forth between different time levels and characters from the mythical place. The adaptation has no concrete start date yet.

The 1982 Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece is in the category Magical realism and is considered one of the most important books in Latin American literature. The Netflix adaptation’s producing staff includes Rodrigo García, the author’s son. A teaser trailer starring Claudio Cataño as Colonel Aureliano Buendía was released on the tenth anniversary of Gabriel García Márquez’s death.

Wait 100 years? Such a film project really exists!

Anyone who considers the eccentric author’s conceptual approach to be unrealistic may be surprised. Because such a thing Film project that none of us will get to seealready exists – and not even from an out-of-touch arthouse director.

Director Robert Rodriguez made the film 100 Years with John Malkovich, whose official release date is November 18, 2115 is. In 2015, the temporal cinema experiment was intended to serve as a promo for a cognac that had to mature for 100 years. Whether there will actually still be cinemas and people who remember the start date in the next century is of course anyone’s guess.