'The Girl on the Train' release date news 2016: Trailer released; film as the next 'Gone Girl'?

The upcoming film adaptation of the 2015 novel by Paula Hawkins of the same title, "The Girl on the Train," has been dubbed the next "Gone Girl."

The latter film was a 2014 psychological thriller that made a sensation in the box office. How the new film will perform though is something left to be seen. If the official trailer that DreamWorks has recently released is any indication, "The Girl on the Train" could very well deserve the moniker.

The trailer opens with Emily Blunt's Rachel Watson taking her pretend commute, looking out of a train window onto a scene the viewer is given to understand she encounters daily as she travels to her make-believe job.

Rachel starts her narrative by speaking about a couple she has idealized in her mind as the perfect "embodiment of true love." As the scenes unfold, it is revealed that the couple, the Hipwells, Haley Bennett's Megan and Luke Evans' Scott, live along the same street as Rachel's ex-husband, Justin Theroux's Tom, and that Megan is Tom's nanny.

During the fateful commute on the trailer, Rachel believes she saw something happen to Megan. Then Megan goes missing. Rachel gets involved in the investigation after sharing what she saw.

She later becomes a suspect when she is reported being in the area of Megan's disappearance the night it happened. She finds herself irrevocably drawn to the series of events that unfold, trying to figure out what may have happened — perhaps not as much for Megan's sake as for her own — and discover her role in the bizarre events.

Where she had once been a mere unemployed onlooker, a fixated alcoholic, a dedicated stalker even, her becoming a suspect in Megan's disappearance and the foul play inferred from it catapults her over the line into a role of a possible player in the shocking story.

Rachel wakes up one day to find herself covered in bruises without any recollection of how she got them. An alcoholic divorcee given to bouts of forgetfulness, she struggles to find out what her missing memory holds.

And she must find out, or be perpetually afraid of herself.

The film takes place in New York, deviating from the book's London scene, and is written by Erin Cressida Wilson with Tate Taylor directing.

"The Girl on the Train" will make its way into theaters Oct. 7.