This was something very much on the mind of director Tate Taylor in the making of The Girl On The Train, but it led him to an important decision: that he doesn’t really mind if people already know the ending before they go to see the movie.
Making a film adaptation of a popular mystery novel is tricky business.
One of the most entertaining elements of the genre is the big “whodunit” reveal — but the fact that so many people read the book before the movie was made means that there is already a big section of the audience that already knows how things turn out.