– The film about the history of the newspaper The Sun, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will have its world premiere in competition
Jack O’Connell in Ink
Ink, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdong Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting), is the opening film, in a world premiere in competition, of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2 – 12 September). Written by multi-Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit) an based on his Tony-nominated play, the film stars Jack O’Connell (Sinners, ’71, Starred Up), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist, Memento, L.A. Confidential) and Claire Foy (The Crown, All of Us Strangers, First Man).
Danny Boyle stated: “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. 1969 – the year we first walked on the moon – and the year Rupert Murdoch & Larry Lamb launched a newspaper that was to change the world far more. Long before Fox News, click bait, and Truth Social; decades before Twitter, Facebook, Google & Only Fans, these 2 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. A script by James Graham I felt compelled and privileged to make.”
“An Oscar-winning director, one of the leading playwrights on the London theatre scene, and three of the most acclaimed actors in contemporary British cinema—these are the credentials behind Danny Boyle’s film – stated Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera –. It is an account of publisher Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun, which he entrusted to the unscrupulous Larry Lamb, turning it into Britain’s best-selling tabloid at the expense of its rival, The Mirror.”
Alwin H Küchler (Steve Jobs) is the film’s DOP, Gareth Pugh and Carson McColl (28 Years Later) are the production and costume designers, Fin Oates (How to Have Sex, Warfare) is the editor, and the music by Daniel Pemberton.
Ink is produced by Studiocanal, Media Res and House Productions. Studiocanal will release Ink theatrically in their territories of Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Poland. Benelux, Australia and New Zealand. Ink will be released in Italian cinemas by Lucky Red.
(Translated from Italian)
