Eden: Ron Howard's Galapagos Survival Thriller Arrives Aug 22

Eden, Ron Howard’s latest survival thriller, unfolds on Floreana Island in the Galápagos during 1929, tracing a group of European settlers whose utopian experiment devolves into mistrust, manipulation and lethal violence. With Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas leading a high-profile ensemble, the film arrives in U.S. theaters on August 22 after making its world debut at a major film festival and rolling out in international markets. Produced outside the studio system and released by Vertical, Eden is positioned as a compact, true-crime drama that Howard says was conceived and executed with a distinctly indie mindset.

The project recounts a real, still-mysterious chapter in which Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his partner Dore Strauch abandon 1920s Germany for a desolate island, seeking a new beginning. Their narrative soon intersects with Heinz Wittmer and his wife Margaret, along with their son, who join the couple to pursue a more communal utopia. The arrival of Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn, a socialite who calls herself the Baroness, and her entourage upends the fragile equilibrium. As tensions rise, the settlers contend with scarcity and...