‘100 Years Of Solitude’ Images Give A Peek Into Netflix’s Upcoming Adaptation Of The Gabriel García Márquez Classic

Images from the first season of 100 Years of Solitude reveal the look and feel of the eagerly anticipated adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist masterpiece.

The adaptation will be split across two eight-episode seasons and the first will launch on Dec. 11. The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and the founding of the mythical town of Macondo. The series based on the classic novel is reckoned to be the biggest ever out of Colombia.

García Márquez’s novel was first published in 1967, has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. The Netflix project has been sanctioned by the family of the author.

Dynamo, producer of Narcos and Falcois making the series. Alex García López (The Witcher), and Laura Mora (The Kings of the WorldColombia’s 2023 Oscar entry) share directing duties.

The team behind the project started looking for the cast in 2022 and estimate they saw over 10,000 candidates for the 25 main characters across the seven generations of the Buendía family.

The cast includes Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán) and Moreno Borja ( Melquiades).

Production designers Eugenio Caballero, Oscar winner for Pan’s Labyrinthand Bárbara Enríquez, Oscar nominated for Roma oversaw the building of four versions of Macondo to reflect the passage of time.

To create the desired aesthetic, the producers sourced period furniture from local antique stores and other fabrics and artefacts were made by local artisans. The attention to detail extended to the costume team, led by Catherine Rodríguez, which conducted painstaking research based mainly on the national records and on watercolors available from the time.

100 Years of Solitude is one of several huge launches for Netflix’s Lat-Am division. Look out for a deep dive into the streamer’s regional strategy in Deadline’s upcoming MIPCOM magazine, releasing Oct. 20.