Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is finally heading to the screen.

Netflix has acquired the rights to adapt the literary classic as a Spanish language television series. This marks the first screen adaptation of the novel.

"Cien Años de Soledad" was first published in 1967. It follows several generations of the Buendia family, whose patriarch Jose Arcadio Buendia founded Macondo, a fictional town in Colombia, and delves deep into magical realism.

The novel was part of a boom in Latin American fiction in the '60s and '70s and was a pioneer in the genre of magical realism.

García Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha, will serve as executive producers on the series, which will be filmed mainly in Colombia.

"For decades, our father was reluctant to sell the film rights to Cien Años de Soledad because he believed that it could not be made under the time constraints of a feature film, or that producing it in a language other than Spanish would not do it justice," said Garcia.

"But in the current golden age of series, with the level of talented writing and directing, the cinematic quality of content, and the acceptance by worldwide audiences of programs in foreign languages, the time could not be better to bring an adaptation to the extraordinary global viewership that Netflix provides. We are excited to support Netflix and the filmmakers in this venture, and eager to see the final product."