Netflix has dropped a trailer for its upcoming film adaptation of Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10.
Ware’s novel, published in 2016 by Scout Press/Simon & Schuster, follows Lo Blacklock, a journalist who has taken an assignment aboard a luxury cruise ship in the North Sea. Lo swears that she witnessed a woman being thrown overboard, but after all the passengers are accounted for she finds it difficult to convince others that it happened. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “Too much drama at the end detracts from a finely wrought and subtle conundrum.”
The film adaptation is directed by Simon Stone from a screenplay by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse. Keira Knightley plays Lo in the film, with other cast members including David Ajala, Guy Pearce, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Art Malik.
The trailer opens with Knightley being greeted by a series of passengers, then cuts to a scene of her in her cabin, where she hears a loud noise and a scream. She sees a woman in the sea and alerts others on the ship, saying, “Someone’s gone overboard.”
Later, Ajala, playing a passenger named Ben, tells Knightley, “These people run the world. Don’t piss them off.” It ends with a shot of the ship sailing along at night, with a ghostly version of Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” playing.
The Woman in Cabin 10 is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on October 10.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
