Ana De Armas and Sydney Sweeney’s thriller 2025 will premiere on Netflix very soon

Ana de Armas and Sydney Sweeney are two of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood today. If you’re looking for a studio green light or production funding, securing just one of these artists will generate serious interest. Get them both, and the project, unless it’s a shot-for-shot remake of Rob Reiner’s “North,” is almost certainly a hit.

The film that attracted these two popular stars is called “Eden”, and it has already been a hit in theaters. There were some big names besides De Armas and Sweeney (who has had a poor box office lately). Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Brühl are among them. Additionally, it was directed by Ron Howard and had music by Hans Zimmer. Budgeted at $55 million, Australian tax credits brought that price down to $35 million. It is nevertheless a major prestige film, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. And I bet many of you are just now learning that it exists.

How could a film of this magnitude end up being a failure on the pop culture radar? That’s unfortunately what happens when a top filmmaker strays wildly from his good-hearted comfort zone and delivers a downbeat riff on “Lord of the Flies” that draws mixed reviews. De Armas, Sweeney and the rest of the cast may be wonderful performers, but this is the kind of film that, these days, will either become a streaming hit or have a hole in the memory like so much “EDtv.”

Written by Noah Pink, “Eden” is about a group of European settlers who, after World War I, searched for meaning and, perhaps, utopia on the Galapagos island of Floreana. This region of the Eastern Pacific has become home to Dr. Friedrich Ritter (Law) and Dore Strauch (Kirby), the latter tackling a manifesto that, when completed, will guide humanity toward peace and enlightenment. They are joined on the island by Heinz and Margret Wittmer (Brühl and Sweeney), who have bought into Ritter’s vision, but soon discover that they are far from paradise.

Tensions rise with the arrival of Wagner Wehrhorn’s (de Armas) Eloise Bosquet, who brings with her two male lovers/sidekicks. His goal is to build a resort in the Galapagos, which goes against everything Ritter and, above all, Wittmers’ values. Ultimately, alliances form that turn the film into a “Survivor” type film that cannot be contained by the CBS producers. There will be blood, betrayal and murder. And this might interest you!

“Eden” will begin streaming on Netflix on December 23, just in time for Christmas, when it may well achieve cult status. His awards prospects died at TIFF, but Howard has some late classics in his oeuvre (notably the sublime “The Paper”); maybe the weather will be kind to “Eden”. Or maybe it’s headed to “EDtv.”