A Gabo classic becomes a TV series

The novel by the famous writer and journalist has inspired this television production that will soon be broadcast on Amazon Prime Video.

The production based on real events tells the story of the kidnappings of a group of prominent Colombian figures such as journalists Beatriz Villamizar, Diana Turbay, Azucena Liévano and Francisco Santos Calderón, the sister of the former Secretary General of the Presidency, Marina Montoya, the politician and publicist Maruja Pachón, among others, in the 1990s.

These kidnappings had been planned by the well-known drug trafficker Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and were carried out by the group of criminals who called themselves “The Extraditables” and who also made up the Medellín Cartel.

The kidnappings were committed as part of a plan to intimidate and extort Colombian President César Gaviria, and to stop any type of agreement with the United States to extradite Colombian drug traffickers.

All these events, such as the fatal outcome for Turbay and Montoya, were recounted in Gabriel García Márquez’s bestseller “Noticia de un kidnapping”, considered one of the most impressive books of the Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature, and which now inspire that also name a new television series.

The cast of “News of a kidnapping” is made up of Cristina Umaña, Juan Pablo Raba, Majida Issa, Julieth Restrepo, Constanza Duque and Carmen Gómez; as it has been seen in the trailer that has been released by Prime Video this week.

The miniseries will have six chapters of around an hour and will premiere on August 12 on the streaming platform.

“Noticias de un kidnapping” is directed by the Chilean director Andrés Wood, who is known for having participated in the film “Violeta went to heaven” (2011), and the historical drama “Machuca” (2004)

The series was directed by Andrés Wood, who is also part of the executive production team, accompanied by María Elena Wood, Matías Cardone, Macarena Cardone, Patricio Pereira, Lourdes Díaz, Stuart Ford, Cristina Garza, and Gabriel García Márquez’s own son. , Rodrigo García, who is a director and screenwriter.

This is not the first Colombian production to appear in the Amazon Prime Video catalog, which already includes “El Niño de Medellín” (about the life of singer J Balvin), the comedy “Primate”, and “Mi Selección Colombia”, that tells the story of passion between Colombians and the king sport: soccer.