The crime thriller co-starring David Ajala, Hannah Waddingham, Guy Pearce, and more begins streaming on Oct. 10
While sleeping on an extravagantly large yacht in the trailer for The Woman in Cabin 10, Keira Knightley‘s Lo Blacklock hears screams in the night. Rushing out to see what could be projecting such terror at such a late hour, she sees a woman’s body floating in the water. Blacklock is an award-winning journalist who deals in facts. She knows what she saw, but no one believes her.
Blacklock is only on the yacht to report on its owner Richard Bullmer (Guy Pearce) and his charity foundation; but Bullmer’s brought along a ton of friends for the three-day voyage. Miles away from land, Blacklock must keep herself grounded while being relentlessly gaslit about the incident in the night.
“There was never a guest staying in here, Ms. Blacklock,” security tells her when she reports the fallen body. “Everyone’s accounted for.”
Despite being warned not to get on the bad side of wealthy people with nothing to lose, Blacklock can’t suppress her journalistic instincts and the sense that someone is hiding something. Soon enough, there’s a target on her back and only so many places to run and hide. When a passenger asks why she would be targeted specifically, Blacklock offers two reasons: “To kill me. To silence me.”
The Woman in Cabin 10 premieres on Netflix on Oct. 10. The thriller also stars Hannah Waddingham, David Ajala, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelaric David Morrissey, Daniel Ings, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh, Pippa Bennett-Warner, John Macmillan, Paul Kaye, and Lisa Loven Kongsli.
“You never question whether or not she saw what she saw,” writer and director Simon Stone told Netflix. “You agree completely with her. It’s her struggle against the conspiracy.” The film is adapted from Ruth Ware’s mystery novel of the same name, published in 2016.
