Ink, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting), is world premiering in competition as the opening film of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (running 2 – 12 September). Written by multi-Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit) 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) in its cast.

As Danny Boyle stated: “I’ve been to the Biennale many times, but this is my baptism at the film festival – it’s a huge honour to be in a city with such extraordinary art and opening this great festival with my new film, Ink. 1969 was 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, and decades before Twitter, Facebook, Google & Only Fans, these two men created a new tabloid which became the biggest selling newspaper in the world, against the odds. Cheeky, irreverent and daring, the super soaraway Sun challenged the establishment and reshaped our world for the modern era. With a script by James Graham, I felt compelled and privileged to make this film.”

“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”, enthused Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera. “It’s 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 production and costume designers, Fin Oates (How to Have Sex, Warfare) is the editor, and music is by Daniel Pemberton.

Ink was 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. The movie will be released in Italian cinemas by Lucky Red.