One Hundred Years of Solitude OTT release date: When and where to watch Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel adaptation

Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude has an onscreen adaptation and it has a streaming date too. Streaming giant Netflix had picked up the rights to the book in 2019 and turned it into a 16-episode series, which will be released in two sets of 8 episodes each. The first 8 episodes will drop on the streamer on December 11.

An official note from Netflix states that One Hundred Years of Solitude follows cousins José and Úrsula, who get married against their parents’ wishes and leave their village to embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their voyage culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo.

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Several generations of the Buendía lineage will shape the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to 100 years of solitude. Alex García López and Laura Mora have directed the series.

According to reports, One Hundred Years of Solitude was filmed in Colombia and is one of the most ambitious productions in Latin America. Its cast includes the likes of Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Leonardo Soto (José Arcadio’s son), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán), Moreno Borja (Melquiades) and Santiago Vásquez (teenage Aureliano Buendía), among others.

Other notable book adaptations available on the platform include Lady Chatterley’s Lover, All Quiet on The Western Front, Passing, The Irishman (I Heard You Paint Houses), Beasts of No Nation, The Power of Dog, The Lost Daughter, Bird Box, among many others.