In The Independent Daniel McCarthy reports that impresario Harvey Weinstein claimed that Gabriel García Márquez told him that:
It'll be interesting and revealing to see how long before the García Márquez estate caves and sells out -- the only question being whether it's this that gets filmed first, or Catcher in the Rye.
if he, and director Giuseppe Tornatore, wanted the rights to One Hundred Years of Solitude they were the men for the job. But there was one catch: "We must film the entire book, but only release one chapter -- two minutes long -- each year, for 100 years," Weinstein said.I can't believe they didn't leap at the chance -- what a gimmick !
It'll be interesting and revealing to see how long before the García Márquez estate caves and sells out -- the only question being whether it's this that gets filmed first, or Catcher in the Rye.