Ron Howard’s TIFF Thriller ‘Eden’ Acquired By Vertical For Late Summer U.S. Theatrical Release
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Ron Howard-directed survival thriller Eden has been acquired in a U.S. rights deal by Vertical, with the distributor plotting an August 22 nationwide theatrical release.
Scripted by Noah Pink (Tetris) from a fact-based story he wrote with Howard, the drama from Imagine Entertainment and AGC Studios stars Jude Law (The Order), Ana de Armas (Ballerina), Vanessa Kirby (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Daniel Brühl (All Quiet on the Western Front), Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate), Toby Wallace and Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front).
They are the members of three parties who flee post-World War II civilization to start over and build paradise on the Galapagos Islands.
It becomes a battle to survive the harsh elements, and each other. Bodies pile up. The deal brings to an end an unexpectedly difficult road the film traveled in finding its way to a theatrical audience, considering its stellar cast, and the Oscar-winner Howard making his narrative follow-up to the acclaimed Thirteen Lives, another fact-based survival tale.
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