Ruth Ware Reveals Her Subsequent Guide Adaptation Choose After The Lady In Cabin 10

The Woman in Cabin 10 creator Ruth Ware has shared which guide she wish to see tailored subsequent. Ware’s 2016 thriller novel was tailored into a brand new film starring Keira Knightley. 2025’s The Woman in Cabin 10 debuted on Netflix on October 10 and is now the streamer’s No. 1 most-watched film of the day in america.

In an interview with ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley, Ware was requested which of her novels she wish to be tailored subsequent. Whereas she shared that she thought that a few of her books have been “unfilmable” and that a film adapting The Lady in Cabin 10‘s sequel The Lady in Suite 11 could be “unimaginable,” she in the end selected a completely totally different novel.

The title that she singled out for a film adaptation was 2022’s The It Woman, which follows Hannah, a girl whose world is turned upside-down when she is offered with proof that the one who went to jail for murdering her beloved Oxford classmate April a decade earlier than could have truly been harmless.

Whereas she didn’t share specifics about why she desires the novel to be tailored, past the truth that it would not comprise the kind of twist or reveal that would not work onscreen, she did share that its Oxford setting might make it a robust selection as a result of “I really feel like we have got a little bit of a vogue happening” with that setting.

It looks like Ruth Ware is straight referencing 2025’s My Oxford Year, a Netflix romance which stars Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest. The Oxford-set film debuted on the streamer on August 1 and held a spot on their chart of the most-watched English-language motion pictures for 4 consecutive weeks, hitting No. 1 throughout its second week.

My Oxford Yr was additionally primarily based on a guide, specifically the 2018 novel of the identical identify by Julia Whelan.

It’s potential that the vogue referenced by Ware additionally consists of Emerald Fennell’s 2023 psychological thriller Saltburn, which adopted the shifting energy dynamics between Oxford college students who come from totally totally different social castes. That film had certainly one of Prime Video’s finest streaming debuts ever and was nominated for 2 Golden Globes.

It in the end appears probably that the subsequent Ware novel to be tailored will likely be The Lady from Suite 11, as a result of having a mission straight comply with the explosive Woman in Cabin 10 ending is likely to be the easiest way for Netflix to capitalize on its recognition.

Nevertheless, Ware makes a great level about The It Woman being ripe for an adaptation. Moreover, it’s well-positioned to be a strong follow-up to The Lady in Cabin 10 on Netflix, as a result of it’s certainly one of Ware’s titles that has not already been optioned by one other firm. That roster consists of In a Darkish, Darkish Wooden, The Mendacity Sport, and Zero Days.