Why is Danny Boyle’s Ink opening Venice
Danny Boyle’s Ink Is Opening Venice, Which Feels Like a Loaded First Brick
Danny Boyle’s new film Ink will open the 2026 Venice Film Festival, with Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy in a story about Rupert Murdoch and the launch of The Sun. It sounds less like a quiet character study and more like watching an institution being assembled while people are still arguing over the foundations.
The useful detail here is the setting: newspapers, ambition, ownership, and the machinery that turns private decisions into public habits. That is usually more interesting than another film about one unusually gifted man having a difficult week.
Variety’s announcement has the film scheduled as the opening competition title on September 2. I’m curious whether Boyle treats the newspaper as a workplace, a political instrument, or both. Probably both, which is where the pipework gets interesting.