Ink, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy, will world premiere in competition as the opening film of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, taking place September 2 – 12, 2026.
Jack O’Connell (Starred Up, 71, Back To Black, Sinners), Guy Pearce (Memento, The Brutalist, LA Confidential) and Claire Foy (The Crown, All of us Strangers, The Electrical life of Louis Wain) star in Ink, described as an explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news – one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today.
O’Connell stars as The Sun editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch. Claire Foy is Jules Davies.
Academy and BAFTA award-winning Danny Boyle (28 Years Later, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) directs Ink, which is based on the Tony-nominated play by multi-Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit).
“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. I would like to thank StudioCanal, Media Res, and House Productions for granting us the honor of opening the Venice Film Festival with such a highly anticipated film,” said Alberto Barbera, Festival director.
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, clickbait, 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.”
Ink will have its world premiere screening on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia) on the opening night of the 83rd Biennale Cinema.
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