Ron Howard ... Why?

Image sources (in order of posting): Jasin Boland, Vertical

Eden , the new Ron Howard movie dumped even more unceremoniously than the director’s last, Thai cave rescue biopic Thirteen Lives , begins with a young newlywed reluctantly dragged to the edge of the earth (read: Floreana, one of the Galápagos Islands) by her new husband, with her adolescent stepson in tow. The year is 1932 and the woman in question is Margret Wittmer, a relentlessly German young woman who we are told was well on her way to spinsterdom before she accepted the first man to glance her way, but is played by Sydney Sweeney with dyed hair because this is Hollywood.

Her husband, disillusioned WWI vet Heinz Wittmer (Daniel Brühl), embarked on this quest partly in search of a warmer climate

See Full Page