Photos from the primary season of 100 Years of Solitude reveal the appear and feel of the eagerly anticipated adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist masterpiece.
The difference will probably be cut up throughout two eight-episode seasons and the primary will launch on Dec. 11. The multi-generational story follows the Buendía household and the founding of the legendary city of Macondo. The collection based mostly on the basic novel is reckoned to be the most important ever out of Colombia.
García Márquez’s novel was first revealed in 1967, has bought greater than 50 million copies and been translated into greater than 40 languages. The Netflix venture has been sanctioned by the household of the creator.
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Dynamo, producer of Narcos and Falco, is making the collection. Alex García López (The Witcher), and Laura Mora (The Kings of the World, Colombia’s 2023 Oscar entry) share directing duties.
The group behind the venture began searching for the solid in 2022 and estimate they noticed over 10,000 candidates for the 25 predominant characters throughout the seven generations of the Buendía household.
The solid consists of Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (younger Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán) and Moreno Borja (Melquiades).
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Manufacturing designers Eugenio Caballero, Oscar winner for Pan’s Labyrinth, and Bárbara Enríquez, Oscar nominated for Roma oversaw the constructing of 4 variations of Macondo to mirror the passage of time.
To create the specified aesthetic, the producers sourced interval furnishings from native vintage shops and different materials and artefacts have been made by native artisans. The eye to element prolonged to the costume group, led by Catherine Rodríguez, which carried out painstaking analysis based mostly primarily on the nationwide data and on watercolors out there from the time.
100 Years of Solitude is certainly one of a number of enormous launches for Netflix’s Lat-Am division. Look out for a deep dive into the streamer’s regional technique in Deadline’s upcoming MIPCOM journal, releasing Oct. 20.
