Overview

• The Netflix feature adapts Ware’s 2016 bestseller about a travel journalist who believes she sees a woman thrown overboard only to be dismissed when all passengers are accounted for.
• Netflix confirms an October 10, 2025 streaming release, following a trailer reveal that set the date.
• Simon Stone directs from a screenplay by Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse and Stone, with production under Sister.
• The ensemble includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, Hannah Waddingham, David Morrissey and Guy Pearce alongside Knightley.
• Ware calls watching the film “surreal” and says Knightley captures Lo Blacklock’s anxious yet determined spirit.