Danny Boyle’s Ink, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will open the Venice Film Festival (September 2 – 12) and will screen in competition.
It is the first time a film directed by Boyle has screened at Venice.
The Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham has written the script, which follows the early days of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire and is based on Graham’s 2017 play of the same name.
Boyle has produced the film with Tessa Ross, Michael Ellenberg and Tracey Seaward of the UK’s House Productions.
Studiocanal has fully financed the film and is releasing it theatrically in UK-Ireland, France, Germany, Poland. Benelux, Australia and New Zealand.
Lucky Red releases in Italy.
“I’ve been to the Biennale many times, but this is my baptism at the film festival - a huge honour to be in a city of such extraordinary art and opening this great festival with my new film Ink,” said Boyle, whose credits include Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later.
“1969 - the year we first walked on the moon - and the year Rupert Murdoch and Larry Lamb launched a newspaper that was to change the world far more.
“Long before Fox News, clickbait, and Truth Social; decades before Twitter, Facebook, Google & OnlyFans, these two men created a new tabloid which, against all the odds, became the biggest-selling newspaper in the world. Cheeky, irreverent, daring: The super soaraway Sun challenged the establishment and remade our world for the modern era.”
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