Is The Woman in Cabin 10 Getting a Netflix Sequel — and Will Keira Knightley Return?
Keira Knightley’s Netflix thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 could still sail toward a sequel, but even with Ruth Ware’s follow-up The Woman in Suite 11 arriving July 2025, the author confirms no screen adaptation is planned for now.
Netflix just dropped The Woman in Cabin 10, and yes, the sequel chatter has already started. Short version: there is a follow-up novel, but there is no movie sequel in the works right now. Here is where things actually stand, what the author is saying, and a tidy breakdown of that twisty ending.
So, is Netflix making a sequel?
Maybe someday, but not today. The Woman in Cabin 10 is adapted from Ruth Ware's 2016 bestseller. Ware has written a follow-up, The Woman in Suite 11, which hit shelves in July 2025, but she says there is no adaptation happening yet.
Asked about a movie sequel before the film premiered, Ware was game but very honest about being out of the loop on Hollywood timelines:
"I tend to just get told about stuff when it's greenlit and people do their stuff. So no, you probably know as much as I do."
Translation: if Netflix likes the numbers and the buzz, it could happen. For now, it's a wait-and-see.
How the movie ends (spoilers)
Keira Knightley plays Lo Blacklock, a journalist invited onto a luxury yacht by Anne Bullmer (Lisa Loven Kongsli), a wealthy philanthropist who says she is dying and planning to give her fortune to charity. Not long after they set sail, Lo hears a scream from the next cabin and spots a body in the water. The catch: no one aboard admits the mystery woman exists, and the other passengers decide Lo must be imagining things.
Lo digs anyway and discovers the woman she saw was not Anne at all, but an actress named Carrie. Anne's husband, Richard (Guy Pearce), hired Carrie to impersonate Anne so he could secure control of the will. Lo eventually escapes her captors and publicly confronts Richard, blowing up his scheme in front of an audience.
Things turn violent: Richard takes Carrie hostage. His own assistant shoots him, and Lo lands a final blow that puts him down. Afterward, Lo writes an expose about the whole ordeal. She gets a video message from Carrie, alive, safe, and reunited with her daughter. Lo smiles, the story closes, credits roll.
About the new book, The Woman in Suite 11
Ware started writing Suite 11 while the movie was in production. In an interview about returning to Lo nearly a decade later, she said readers kept asking what became of Lo, which nudged her back into that world. In Suite 11, Lo is a mother now, but she still carries the trauma from the yacht. At the press opening of a swanky Swiss hotel, a stranger tells Lo she is in life-or-death danger, and Lo is pulled right back into it.
Ware says Lo has grown up a bit, but that essential compulsion to help people (even when it complicates her life) is still the core of who she is.
Quick facts
- Title: The Woman in Cabin 10
- Director: Simon Stone
- Release: October 10, 2025
- Where to watch: Netflix (US)
- Stars: Keira Knightley (Lo Blacklock), Guy Pearce (Richard), Lisa Loven Kongsli (Anne Bullmer)
- Based on: Ruth Ware's 2016 novel The Woman in Cabin 10
- Book sequel: The Woman in Suite 11 (published July 2025); no film adaptation announced
The bottom line
No sequel is greenlit. Netflix will see how this one performs and how viewers react. If they move forward, expect another sleek paranoia thriller with Lo in the crosshairs. Until then, if you want more, Suite 11 is already out there to scratch the itch.
Would you read the new book now or wait and hope Knightley returns as Lo? I would not mind watching her chase one more very rich, very messy mystery.