Ron Howard presents the world premiere of 'EDEN' | TIFF 2024 at Canada

director Ron Howard syney thank you so much uh well what a pleasure to be here what a journey to be here I first encountered the story that you about to see in a museum in the galpagos and the story was so wild with so many twists and turns that I just honestly could never get it out of my brain and the more I learned about the story over the years uh the more engrossed and entertained I was by it uh the events incredible the the individuals who who inhabited this story were truly remarkable and I realized that is what kept me you know desperately wanting to tell this story uh I mean they're they're just remarkable they're they're complex they're they're layered they're contradictory um and and it's a real Clash of personalities so that I knew that in order to make this I did a a wonderful script that came from from torontonian Noah pink a script that would not only deal with the real events in a compelling dramatic exciting entertaining way but also attract a a cast a remarkable cast I needed an ensemble who not only had the capacity but also the creative courage to go to some of the places that these real people had gone to in their lives and in in this particular set of events and I found that with this remarkable cast and I just I thank everybody here on the stage for your commitment to this movie it just it's it's a it's uh it's beyond anything that I've ever done in many ways the tone the style the feel of this film and you made so much of that really all of it possible and I thank you for that and I thank all of you first of all for for coming to Tiff for for celebrating cinema cinema in the way that it needs it's meant to be experienced and and of course thank you for uh for choosing to experience our film so uh with that I say uh you want to go to Eden let's go [Applause]