The House of the Spirits is definitely in need of another adaptation. The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful. In 1993, director Billie August’s adaptation of the novel was released to theaters starring a non-Latino cast including Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Winona Ryder as the Truebas.

Hollywood’s taken a stab at adapting the novel before. Along the way the family encounters elements of magical realism. The House of the Spirits is a multi-generational tale following the Truebas, a Chilean family that goes from rags to riches in their quest for love, money, and power.

Hulu is definitely listening because after a supposedly contentious bidding war they’ve announced plans to adapt Allende’s 1982 novel The House of the Spirits into a TV series.Īllende will serve as executive producer on the series as the company starts the process of finding a screenwriter and director. Seriously, when Allende speaks, you all should listen. Allende is an internationally acclaimed, best-selling author whose works are landmark titles in literature. ‘The House of the Spirits’ not only brings another nation’s history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people’s joys and anguishes wholly our own.īorn in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including ‘The House of the Spirits’.Hilean author Isabel Allende is far more than Jane the Virgin‘s favorite writer. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants.

Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history.

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