A great book can tell a great story, but that doesn’t mean the story will reflect well on screen. This goes double for epic stories with sprawling scopes — words on a page are far cheaper than months on a set. For example, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is incredibly popular, but an attempt at a film adaptation completely fell flat. While Mike Flanagan is taking another crack at that story over at Amazon Prime Video, Netflix is going even bigger with an adaptation of one of the most influential books ever — and now we know when we can expect it.
All the way back in 2019, Netflix announced an adaptation of Gabriel García Marquéz’s seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. The story follows a couple as they establish the fictional utopia of Macondo and the seven generations of the family after them. With such a large time range, this had to be given a large-scale adaptation, and thankfully the Netflix series will last for 16 episodes. Check out the teaser for the series below.
