Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby Join Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’, Replacing Alicia Vikander and Daisy Edgar-Jones; Hans Zimmer to Score
It was one of the hot projects coming into Cannes earlier this year, and now it’s getting ready for a late November shoot in Australia. Ron Howard’s Eden, formerly known as Origin of Species, has lost two of its protagonists in Alicia Vikander and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Deadline reports. However, they have found two pretty good replacements: Euphoria and The White Lotus season one star, and one of the buzziest names in Hollywood right now, Sydney Sweeney, and The Crown and Napoleon co-lead Vanessa Kirby. The former confirmed the news on Instagram.
The two actresses join a starry cast made up of Ana de Armas, Jude Law, and Daniel Brühl. In addition, Eden will mark the 10th collaboration between Howard and two-time Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer. The story is “a darkly comic tale of murder and survival, set around a group of eclectic characters who abandon civilization for the Galapagos. They are all searching for the answer to that ever-pressing question that plagues us all: what is the meaning of life.”
In a statement to Deadline, the producers described it as a film that “explores the human condition in ways that are unexpected, absurd, humorous, sexy, but above all thrilling and deeply suspenseful”. With no major studio attached, the film should be able to secure a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement should the strike be prolonged until late November. AGC Studios, Library Pictures International, and Elevate Production Finance are financers.
Vanessa Kirby is up for awards consideration this fall for Napoleon, in which she co-stars with Joaquin Phoenix. She’s reportedly been tapped to play Sue Storm in Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Sydney Sweeney has the upcoming romantic comedy with Glen Powell Anyone But You coming out in December and Sony’s Madame Web in February. (There were reports that a trailer for the Spider-Man-less spin-off was on its way, but so far, it hasn’t come.) Her HBO film Reality is also up for an Emmy, though not her as an actress.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
