Watch Trailer For Literary Classic One Hundred Years of Solitude

Netflix have released the official Trailer for series Literary Classic One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The series will consist of 16 episodes split into 2 parts.Based on Gabriel García Márquez book of the same name, and is considered one of the most ambitious projects in Latin American history. This plays on the idea every book is unadaptable, Peter Jackson proved that wrong with the original The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy.

Can they deliver on Márquez book which many in the Literature world consider a ‘masterpiece’? Looks impressive in many ways and Netflix have funded this series in big ways.

One Hundred Years of Solitude which was filmed in Colombia and is about the founding of Macondo and the arrival of Melquíades. The tensions of Buendía family life, the passions of the town’s inhabitants, the emergence of political conflicts and the ensuing war.

Married against their parent’s wishes, cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán leave their village behind and embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo. Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude.

Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Considered a masterpiece of Spanish-American and universal literature and receiving enormous popular acclaim, it has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages.

The cast, bringing to life the iconic characters of the Buendía family and the inhabitants of Macondo, is predominantly Colombian. It includes Marco Antonio González (young José Arcadio Buendía), Diego Vásquez (adult José Arcadio Buendía), Susana Morales (young Úrsula Iguarán), Marleyda Soto (adult Úrsula Iguarán), Moreno Borja (Melquíades), Claudio Cataño (Aureliano Buendía), Viña Machado (Pilar Ternera), Andrius Leonardo Soto (young José Arcadio), Edgar Vittorino (adult José Arcadio), Loren Sofía Paz (elder Amaranta Buendía), Akima (Rebeca Buendía), Janer Villareal (Arcadio Buendía), Ruggero Pasquarelli (Pietro Crespi), Jairo Camargo (Apolinar Moscote), Jacqueline Arenal (Leonor Moscote), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Cristal Aparicio (Remedios Moscote), Rafael Zea (Alirio Noguera), Salvador del Solar (General Moncada), Álvaro García (Father Nicanor), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía),.