Danny Boyle’s “Ink,” starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will open the 83rd Venice Film Festival, which runs Sept. 2-12. The film will world premiere in the competition section.
The film is written by multi-Olivier awardwinning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (“Dear England,” “Sherwood,” “Brexit”).
Boyle said: “I’ve been to the Biennale many times, but this is my baptism at the film festival – a huge honor 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 and 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 and Only Fans, 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. A script by James Graham I felt compelled and privileged to make.”
Venice chief Alberto Barbera said, “An Oscar-winning director, one of the leading playwrights on the London theater scene, and three of the most acclaimed actors in contemporary British cinema — these are the credentials behind Danny Boyle’s film – enhanced by the performances of Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, which screenwriter James Graham adapted from his own play of the same name.
