Hot off the strong reviews he garnered for “28 Years Later,” Danny Boyle has started production on “Ink” in London.
This is the film centered on the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Guy Pearce stars as the media mogul, while Jack O’Connell will portray Larry Lamb, the editor Murdoch brought in to run The Sun after buying it in 1969.
Additionally, the talented Claire Foy has just been added to the cast, she will play an ambitious editor who joins the Sun and works closely with Lamb.
Alwin H. Küchler is the cinematigrapher. It will be Küchler third film with Boyle after their collaborations on “Sunshine” and “Steve Jobs.” His other credits include “Ratcatcher,” “Morvern Callar,” and “Divergent.”
The film, adapted by James Graham from his own stage play, is said to tackle the birth of the modern British tabloid. According to Deadline, it’s “an explosive cinematic rollercoaster” about a group of visionaries and misfits who envisioned a new kind of news—one designed to give the public exactly what they wanted, and in the process, reshaping the media landscape forever.
There’s no release date attached to “Ink” just yet, but one has to imagine that it’ll be prepped up for fall 2026 release. Then again, as of now, there is no announced U.S. domestic distributor for the film, which is being backed and distributed in several international territories by StudioCanal.
Boyle’s 30-year career has been nothing short of consistent with such helmed films as “28 Days Later,” “Trainspotting,” “127 Hours,” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”