Overview
- The film is set to debut on Netflix on October 10, 2025, adapting Ruth Ware’s bestselling novel into a feature thriller
- Director Simon Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse and aims to subvert unreliable-narrator tropes by affirming the protagonist’s perspective
- Exclusive images showcase an opulent luxury yacht transformed into a claustrophobic stage through close-range wide-angle lenses and tension-driven production design
- Keira Knightley stars as travel journalist Lo Blacklock alongside an ensemble including Hannah Waddingham, Guy Pearce, David Ajala, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, Art Malik, David Morrissey and Daniel Ings
- The narrative centers on themes of isolation, distrust and vindication as Blacklock fights to prove her sighting of a passenger thrown overboard