03.6.2019 | By Jack Rico |
For the first time in history, Cien Años De Soledad will have its Netflix. adaptation. Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s masterwork, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is coming to the small screen. Read More
07.22.2015 | By Jack Rico |
Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature winner and Best-Selling Latin American writer, Gabriel García Márquez, will have a new documentary titled, Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez, coming to a theater near you soon. Read More
04.23.2014 | By Mariana Dussan |
According to ElTiempo.com, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th century, passed away last week at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. The late 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was known all over the world for his magical realism style and successful novels, but the author also enjoyed many more passions, and one of the biggest was film. Read More
04.1.2009 | By Mack Chico |
Mexican-born film star Salma Hayek could take a lead role in an upcoming adaptation of the book “News of a Kidnapping” by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the movie’s producer says.
Shooting is scheduled to start this October in Bogota and in Mexico on the adaptaion of the 1996 book, a factual account of the kidnapping of 10 journalists by notorious Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.
Producer Eduardo Constantini, from Argentina, told AFP he hopes for “the most international cast possible” and that Hayek is a possibility.
“Salma Hayek is very interested in the project, has read the script and is enthusiastic,” Constantini said in New York.
Garcia Marquez is considered one of the major writers of the 20th century. His books include the novels “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera,” which was made into a film.
