Picture the scene: you've just arrived on a remote, uninhabited, island, and you've found yourself shacked up with Sydney Sweeney, Jude Law, Vanessa
Picture the scene: you’ve just arrived on a remote, uninhabited, island, and you’ve found yourself shacked up with Sydney Sweeney, Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, and All Quiet On The Western Front star Felix Kammerer. Sounds like paradise, right? Well, not if you’re Ana de Armas and you find yourself playing an Austrian Baroness trapped in the savage world of Thirteen Lives filmmaker Ron Howard’s upcoming survival thriller Eden, it ain’t. Based on the true story of Floreana, an island in the Galapagos that played host to a band of exiles who fled Europe in the early 20th century, Eden — if the tense first trailer’s anything to go by — sees Lord Of The Flies and says “Hold my conch.” Check it out below;
Sun. Sea. Sex. Suspect European accents. Devastatingly stunning and undeniably portentous landscapes serving as a backdrop to a powder-keg of violent tension. This sure ain’t no Swiss Family Robinson, folks, that much is for certain — and it ain’t no Cast Away, either. Instead, it looks like Howard has gone loco for a full-on, explicit exploration of best laid plans, the primal destructive programming of man, and the perils of living in a house-share. Here’s the official synopsis: “Eden unravels the shocking true story of a group of disillusioned outsiders (Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, and Sydney Sweeney) who abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other. What follows is a chilling descent into chaos where tensions spiral, desperation takes hold, and a twisted power struggle leads to betrayal, violence, and the deaths of half the colony.”
We won’t spoil what happens in Eden (though if you haven’t read historian Abbott Kahler’s Eden Undone: A True Story Of Sex, Murder, And Utopia At The Dawn Of World War II, the book on which it’s based, you absolutely should), but suffice it to say that de Armas, Sweeney, and co are unlikely to be singing ‘Kumbaya My Lord’ by the time the credits roll. We’ll all find out exactly what Howard has in store when Eden comes to cinemas in the UK on 22 August.
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