The premiere of Ron Howard’s Eden at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was paused mid-screening due to a medical emergency in the audience.
On Saturday (September 7), director Rod Howard and the film’s cast – which includes Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney and Vanessa Kirby among others – premiered the survival thriller film at TIFF.
Per a Variety report, the screening began around 5:45pm, but was paused at 7pm after people in the audience began murmuring. The screening was paused and the lights were turned on to provide medical attention to a viewer. It isn’t clear what exactly happened, but the attendee was reportedly stretchered out of the hall.
The film continued its screening around 7:20pm, followed by a Q&A session with the cast and Ron Howard. Before the Q&A session, Toronto International FF CEO Cameron Bailey announced to the audience that the attendee who was stretchered out “will be OK”.
Eden is led by Jude Law and Vanessa Kirby, who play a high-society European couple who “seek a new life on a previously uninhabited island in the Galápagos, only to discover that hell is other people,” according to the film’s official description. “Nothing will test their mettle more than the challenge of coexisting with desperate neighbours capable of theft, deception, and worse.”
In related news, Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited passion project Megalopolis premiered at Cannes earlier this year. The film scored a two-star review from Lou Thomas, who wrote for NME: “The trouble is – and maybe this was also part of the point, somehow – the whole piece is so uneven, that at times it’s akin to watching a toddler being given free rein as an interior decorator. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you always should. All this being said, Coppola deserves a great deal of credit for ploughing $100million of his own money into making his film, his way. Whether Megalopolis is a critical or commercial success remains to be seen but it’s strange enough to surely have a long life as a cult film.”