Over the course of the previous decade, novelist Ruth Ware has churned out a brand new thriller nearly yearly, twisty little gems that smack of Agatha Christie and provides loads of house for classy, fascinating feminine characters at their coronary heart. In fact, Ware’s bestselling novels additionally really feel ready-made for the large and small display screen, so it’s solely shocking that we’re simply now getting the primary adaptation of a Ware hit.
First out of the gate: “The Lady in Cabin 10,” starring Keira Knightley and based mostly on Ware’s 2016 novel of the identical title. Whereas the Netflix film will arrive later this fall, different Ware diversifications are within the offing: New Line Cinema has the rights to “In a Darkish, Darkish Wooden,” whereas Leisure One has TV rights to “The Mendacity Sport” and Common Worldwide Studios is creating “Zero Days” for TV as nicely.
However “The Lady in Cabin 10” is a high-quality choose for Ware’s first adaptation, and one which will get to the center of what makes her tales so compulsively readable (and, as absolutely Netflix brass are betting and hoping, compulsively watchable too). Plus: wealthy loopy folks actin’ badly on a yacht, all the time a bankable sub-genre.
Per Netflix, the movie‘s official synopsis is as such: “Whereas on board a luxurious yacht for a journey task, a journalist — Lo (performed by Knightley) — witnesses a passenger thrown overboard late at night time, solely to be advised that it didn’t occur, as all passengers and crew are accounted for. Regardless of nobody believing her, she continues to search for solutions, placing her personal life at risk.”
Added Ware in her personal assertion, “At its coronary heart, the movie is a few girl who experiences one thing improper, stories it in truth, and isn’t taken severely due to who she is. Too many individuals know what that appears like and I feel we wish vindication for ourselves as a lot as Lo.”
The primary trailer gives loads of proof of Lo’s terror: she sees a physique go overboard, and oops, is promptly advised by nearly everybody round her that she’s nuts. Don’t say that to a girl. Don’t say that to a girl journalist.
Man Pearce, David Ajala, Hannah Waddingham, and Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked additionally star, together with Artwork Malik, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Daniel Ings, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh, Pippa Bennett-Warner, John MacMillan, Paul Kaye, Amanda Collin, and Lisa Loven Kongsli. Simon Stone directs from a script he cowrote with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.
The movie will begin streaming on Netflix on Friday, October 10. Watch the primary trailer for “The Lady in Cabin 10” beneath.