Overview

• Keira Knightley leads as travel journalist Lo Blacklock, who reports seeing a woman thrown overboard on an elite yacht and is met with disbelief from passengers and crew.
• The ensemble features Guy Pearce, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Hannah Waddingham, David Ajala, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey and Art Malik.
• Simon Stone directs from a screenplay by Stone with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, based on an adaptation by Emma Frost of Ruth Ware’s 2016 bestseller.
• Stone describes using wide-angle, close-positioned lenses to distort space and turn the opulent setting into a "floating prison," aligning the tone with 1970s paranoia thrillers.
• Author Ruth Ware frames the narrative as a truthful report dismissed due to who the protagonist is, a theme emphasized in Netflix’s marketing for the October premiere.