Keira Knightley’s Luxury Cruise Becomes a Nightmare in “The Woman in Cabin 10” Trailer
All aboard the first trailer for director Simon Stone’s The Woman in Cabin 10, starring Keira Knightley as a travel writer who boards a luxury cruise ship that looks just a little too good to be true. Knightley plays Laura Blacklock, an award-winning journalist who finds herself at the center of a dangerous mystery once the yacht sets sail. A passenger is thrown overboard—Laura sees it happen—only to find that her fellow passengers, a wealthy lot who themselves all seem suspicious, insist Laura was seeing things. Gaslighting at sea, a tale as old as sea travel itself.
The film is based on Ruth Ware’s best-selling novel of the same name, and is clearly intended to be a proper thriller that centers on Laura’s desire to reveal the truth while everyone around her treats her as if she’s losing her mind. But Laura is no shrinking violet, and nor was she intended to be.
“Lead female characters have had a bit of a bad rap. It’s always the woman whose sanity we’re doubting,” Stone told Collider last year. “I wanted Lo to feel more like the lead characters from ‘70s paranoid thrillers — Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman in The Conversation. You never question them. You just believe they’re right. That’s what I wanted for Keira.”
Knightley is surrounded by an excellent cast, including Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, David Ajala, Art Malik, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Daniel Ings, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Check out the trailer below. The Woman in Cabin 10 arrives on Netflix on October 10.
Here’s the official synopsis from Netflix:
While on board a luxury yacht for a travel assignment, a journalist witnesses a passenger thrown overboard late at night, only to be told that it didn’t happen, as all passengers and crew are accounted for. Despite no one believing her, she continues to look for answers, putting her own life in danger. Based on the bestselling novel The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware.
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Featured image: The Woman in Cabin 10. Keira Knightley as Lo in The Woman in Cabin 10. Cr. Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix © 2025
