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International Disruptors: Director Alex García López Talks Pressure Of Bringing ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ Adaptation To Screen & The Importance Of Showing Latin American Stories In A Different Light
'The Witcher' director talks adapting Gabriel García Márquez's epic novel for Netflix and why the Spanish-language series had to shoot in Columbia
Gabo, who passed away in 2014, had been reluctant to sell the film rights in his lifetime but when Netflix convinced the García Márquez family to entrust them with the adaptation, it came with one major condition: It could not be whitewashed by Hollywood and had to be set in Columbia and told in the Spanish language. But when Francisco ‘Paco’ Ramos, Netflix’s VP of Content for Latin America, approached García López with the prospect of directing Gabo’s mythical masterpiece for the small screen, it felt like a perfect fit (after his initial “five second” hesitation). Columbian indie Dynamo, producer of Narcos and Falco, made the series while García López shares directing duties with Laura Mora, the feature director behind Columbia’s 2023 Oscar entry The Kings of the World.
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