Ron Howard talks real-life murder mystery behind star-studded 'Eden'

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard, of the recently released survival thriller ‘Eden’, opened up on the real-life story which inspired his new movie.

In the star-studded R-rated thriller, ‘Eden’, written by Noah Pink, eminent filmmaker Ron Howard brings together some of the top Hollywood stars, such as Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Bruhl, Felix Kammerer, Toby Wallace, and Richard Roxburgh, in one frame, to tell the true story of European settlers, who left the society behind, to start a new life on the isolated Floreana Island in Galápagos.

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Howard shared that he had been willing to tell this story of the experimental community, including German doctor Friedrich Ritter (Jude Law) and his wife Dora (Vanessa Kirby), Margret Wittmer (Sydney Sweeney) and her husband Heinz(Daniel Bruhl), Baroness Eloise Bosquet (Ana de Armas) and others, for 15 years at this point, ever since he took a family trip to the epic archipelagos.

“It was our dinner conversation the whole trip,” the filmmaker said. “I’ve loved this story for a long time. I always wondered how people would respond to the strangeness of the story; it’s almost too wild to be true.”

“I thought about the show ‘Survivor’, because that’s what this really was. And here people died,” Howard added.

“[During the pandemic] so many people were talking about being off the grid, and this is the ultimate off-the-grid story. Many of us are frustrated by the pressure cooker of society today, but running away from it all is not it. Our story says, ‘These people tried, have a look,'” he explained. “So you’ve got to make it where you are.”

After initially premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, ‘Eden’ was theatrically released in Germany this April, before arriving in American cinemas this Friday, August 22.

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