Memento actor Guy Pearce, Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham and Gugu Mbatha-Raw from The Morning Show will join Keira Knightley in the upcoming feature adaptation of Ruth Ware’s bestselling mystery novel The Woman in Cabin 10, Netflix announced on Tuesday.
Daniel Ings, David Morrissey, Kaya Scodelario, David Ajala, Art Malik, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh and Paul Kaye have also joined the cast of the Simon Stone directorial. Stone is known for directing Netflix’s historical drama The Dig.
The film revolves around a travel journalist (played by Knightley) sent to report on a luxury yacht. Her journey takes a turn when she is awakened by screams in the middle of the night and witnesses what appears to be a passenger thrown overboard. However, her testimony is met with disbelief the next day as all passengers are accounted for. What happens next makes for the rest of the plot.
The adaptation is produced by Sister, the production company co-founded by Elizabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone, with Debra Hayward also investing in it. Executive producing the film is Ilda Diffley of Sister, while Cindy Holland serves as the company's CEO.
On the work front, Pearce is set to appear in David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. Waddingham, fresh off her success in The Fall Guy, will be featured in Mission: Impossible 8. Meanwhile, Mbatha-Raw, who recently starred in Loki, can also be seen in Netflix’s heist film Lift.
Knightley’s last screen outing was in the crime thriller Boston Strangler where she played reporter Loretta McLaughlin. The film was based on the real-life events of Boston Strangler murders.