It was the most satisfying job.
Like most Latin Americans of the directors generation,One Hundred Years of Solitudewas mandatory reading in high school.
Then I understood why everyone was so in love with it its so profound.
Alex Garcia LopezPhoto courtesy of Netflix/Black Bear
On first read, you realize its such an entertaining book.
The execution, the language, the pace everything about it is just intoxicating.
And then you walk away from it, and you go, What did I just read?
Claudio Cataño as Aureliano in ‘100 Years of Solitude’Mauro González, Netflix
That is, in many ways, what the book ended up being.
Nothing came up that interested me, he recalls.
I thought, how are we ever going to adapt a book that has almost no dialogue?
I think everyone can empathize with that.
Other times hes sad and melancholic because of what he has just read.
Of the first eight-episodes, Garcia Lopez directs five, with Mora helming three.
The team saw more than 10,000 candidates for the 25 main characters across seven generations of the Buendia family.
Its touted to be the most expensive show that Netflix has done in Colombia.
Kudos to Netflix to back up their ambition with a check because sometimes that isnt always the case.
The nearly 600 strong production crew was almost entirely from Colombia.
Next year, Garcia Lopez will tell another Hispanic story but in a very different light.
He is currently prepping to shoot feature film entitledThey Wait for Us, which he wrote and will direct.
The story takes place after the Mexican American war of 1846-1848 and is described as a horror-thriller.
