The premiere of Ron Howard's “Eden,” starring Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Jude Law and Daniel Brühl, was briefly interrupted at the Toronto International Film Festival due to a “medical emergency,” with an audience member being carried out of the Roy Thomson Auditorium on a stretcher.
The show started at 5:45 p.m. and stopped around 7 p.m. when the lights came on and staff attended to the incident, which occurred in the orchestra while the actors and director Howard remained seated in the mezzanine.
The condition of the moviegoers was not known, but the show resumed at about 7:20 p.m.
Eden follows a high-minded European couple, played by Law and Kirby, who “seek a new life on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos Islands, only to discover that hell is other people,” according to the film’s plot. As they encounter other settlers on the island, “nothing will test their courage more than the challenge of coexisting with desperate neighbors capable of theft, deceit and worse.”
Speaking about the star-studded cast at Variety's Toronto Film Festival studio ahead of the premiere, Howard said: “Just watching these scenes come together through their talent and their artistry and their creativity is everything I could have hoped for.”
Produced by Howard and Brian Grazer, Karen Lunder, Stuart Ford, William M. Connor, and Patrick Newall, the film is a blockbuster at the Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. The film is set to be released on Amazon Prime in Canada but does not yet have a U.S. distributor.
