The organisers of this year’s La Biennale di Venezia have announced that Danny Boyle’s new film is set to open the festival.
INK is written by the multi-Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit), with Boyle (28 Years Later, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) directing.
“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 the Greater Manchester director.
“A script by James Graham I felt compelled and privileged to make. 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.”
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The StudioCanal, Media Res and House Productions film stars Jack O’Connell as Larry Lamb, the West Yorkshire-born editor of The Sun; Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch; and Claire Foy playing Jules Davies, Lamb’s wife.
“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,” said Festival Director, Alberto Barbera.
“I would like to thank StudioCanal, Media Res, and House Productions for granting us the honour of opening the Venice Film Festival with such a highly anticipated film.”
The 83rd Venice International Film Festival takes place this September.
