The film will have its world premiere on Wednesday 2 September in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema.
La Biennale di Venezia is pleased to announce that INK, directed by the Academy and BAFTA award winning Danny Boyle (28 Years Later Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), written by multi-Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit), and starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, is the opening film, in a world premiere in competition, of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival directed by Alberto Barbera (September 2 – 12, 2026).
Danny Boyle stated: « 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. »
« 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 – stated Alberto Barbera – 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. 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. »
