Overview

• Netflix released the first trailer on Aug. 26 and confirmed the film will stream on Oct. 10, 2025.
• Keira Knightley stars as travel journalist Laura “Lo” Blacklock, who reports seeing a passenger thrown overboard only to be told it never happened.
• The ensemble includes Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, David Ajala, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey and Daniel Ings.
• Simon Stone directs from a screenplay by Stone, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, based on an adaptation by Emma Frost, with Debra Hayward and Ilda Diffley producing and Cindy Holland and Richard Hewitt as executive producers.
• Stone says the film avoids the “unreliable woman” trope, with visual choices designed to make the opulent yacht feel claustrophobic, echoing Hitchcock and ’70s paranoid thrillers; author Ruth Ware highlights themes of credibility and vindication.