Emily Blunt stars as a troubled woman in the first trailer for mystery thriller, The Girl on the Train.

Blunt plays Rachel Watson, a recently divorced woman who has started to obsess over her former neighbours Megan and Scott Hipwell (Haley Bennett and Luke Evans) as a way of breaking her unhealthy behaviour towards her ex-husband and his new family. However, on one ordinary day on her usual commute, Rachel sees something that causes her to fly into a fit of rage and she wakes up the next morning with no memory of what she has done. The situation intensifies when Megan is reported missing on the very night Rachel has no recollection of what happened.

From The Help director Tate Taylor, the first trailer for The Girl on the Train is now available and it could very well be this year’s Gone Girl. Based on the bestselling book by Paula Hawkins, the movie adaptation also stars  Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Édgar Ramírez, Allison Janney and Laura Prepon. The Girl on the Train is released in UK cinemas on October 7.

Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez and Allison Janney star in The Girl on the Train, from director Tate Taylor (The Help, Get on Up) and producer Marc Platt (Bridge of Spies, Into the Woods). In the thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasising about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds. 

Based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel, The Girl on the Train is adapted for the screen by Erin Cressida Wilson and Taylor. The film’s executive producers are Jared LeBoff and Celia Costas, and it will be released by Entertainment One in the UK.