Director Danny Boyle’s latest film, Ink – about media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s impact on tabloid journalism – has been picked up by Netflix ahead of its festival premiere. Danny Boyle’s latest film will be coming to a small screen near you soon. Based on James Graham’s play of the same name, Ink is due to ... Ink | Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch drama picked up by Netflix in the US, UK in January
Director Danny Boyle’s latest film, Ink – about media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s impact on tabloid journalism – has been picked up by Netflix ahead of its festival premiere.
Danny Boyle’s latest film will be coming to a small screen near you soon. Based on James Graham’s play of the same name, Ink is due to make its festival debut in September – but Netflix has swooped in early to secure the US rights according to Deadline.
The movie will be released in cinemas by StudioCanal in the UK and Europe.
Set in the late 1960s, Ink explores how Australian businessman Rupert Murdoch, then still in his 30s, acquired The Sun newspaper while it was in its death throes and transformed it into a tabloid powerhouse.
Under the control of editor Larry Lamb, it quickly outgrew its competitors by publishing a steady flow of sensationalism, gossip and scantily-clad models – in the original play’s telling, it was Lamb who came up with the idea of putting a topless model on The Sun’s third page.
Graham has adapted his own play for the screen, while Boyle has assembled an impressive cast: Guy Pearce will play Murdoch while Jack O’Connell will play Lamb, the northern, working class publisher who ran The Sun for over a decade.
Boyle’s no stranger to making movies about real life figures; he made Steve Jobs in 2015 – an unflattering portrait of the Apple co-founder and tech celebrity who died in 2011. Written by Aaron Sorkin, it garnered Oscar nominations for Michael Fassbender’s title performance and Kate Winslet as marketing exec Joanna Hoffman.
The Ink play was more blackly comic than the clinically sombre Steve Jobs, though, with its production and pace designed to reflect the tabloid nature of its subject. Boyle, a director known for his stylised filmmaking, will probably have fun adapting its hectic storytelling for the screen.
Boyle shot Ink in the UK last year. With any luck, he’ll be making the closing chapter in his 28 Years Later trilogy next – Sony gave the sequel the greenlight late last year.
Ink gets its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on the 2nd September. StudioCanal is set to it in UK cinemas in 2027. We’ll bring you a more precise release date as we get it.
UPDATE: We’ve got one! The UK release of Ink is set for 8th January 2027.
