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# [Alicia Vikander Stars in Netflix-Bound Ridley Scott-Produced Thriller](https://greenslate.com/blog/earthquake-bird-netflix)

 Written by [GreenSlate](https://greenslate.com/blog/author/greenslate) | Oct 16, 2019 2:30:00 PM

*Colette* director Wash Westmoreland adapts Susanna Jones' novel to the screen for the film

In *Earthquake Bird, *a 1980s Tokyo-set mystery thriller, Lucy Fly (Vikander), a young Swedish translator, comes under investigation for her best friend Lily’s disappearance – and suspected murder – in the wake of their tumultuous love triangle with a local photographer (Naoki Kobayashi). The film chronicles the chain of events leading up to Lily's disappearance in a series of loosely interlocking flashbacks.

 

 

After its world premiere at the London Film Festival, *Earthquake Bird* will open with a limited theatrical release on November 1, then begin streaming on Netflix on November 15.

**Production companies:** Scott Free Productions, Twenty First City

**Distributor:** Netflix

**Cast:** Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, Naoki Kobayashi, Jack Huston, Kiki Sukezane, Ken Yamamura

**Director-screenwriter:** Wash Westmoreland

**Producers:** Ridley Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Michael Pruss, Ann Ruark, Georgina Pope

**Learn more about the film:** [https://www.netflix.com/title/80244457](https://www.netflix.com/title/80244457)

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