Keira Knightley star seen filming off Portland coast

Production crews have been spotted in the area of Portland Port.

Film crews move in at Portland Port for on location filming. Believed to be with Keira Knightly OBE. © Geoff Moore/ (Image: Geoff Moore) Many have reported seeing a superyacht off the coast.

It is believed that the filming is for a film adaptation of Ruth Ware’s bestselling novel ‘The Woman in Cabin 10,’ which sees Keira Knightley take on the lead role of a travel journalist.

Film crews move in at Portland Port for on location filming. Believed to be with Keira Knightly OBE. It is based around the motor yacht Savannah. © Geoff Moore (Image: Geoff Moore)She witnesses a passenger tossed overboard in the dead of night, and no one believes her story as all on the ship have been accounted for.

The travel journalist searches for answers, putting her own life in danger.

Keira Knightley attending the Jewish Film Festival UK premiere of Charlotte at the Curzon Mayfair, London. Picture date: Tuesday November 15, 2022. (Image: PA)Netflix have been contacted for further information.

Film crews move in at Portland Port for on location filming. Believed to be with Keira Knightly OBE. © Geoff Moore/ (Image: Geoff Moore)

Portland has been the setting of a number of films over the years and in 2015, Colin Firth was spotted on Portland filming scenes for The Mercy, a biopic of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, who gave misleading reports which implied that he had sailed around the world when in fact he had remained in the Atlantic.

In May 2008 Portland Port was used as a location for Richard Curtis film The Boat That Rocked.

Portland Harbour was used as a substitute for the North Sea, from which rogue DJs played by Rhys Ifans and Bill Nighy broadcast illegally.

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