Danny Boyle‘s INK will indeed competition for the Golden Lion — with the Venice Film Festival setting the control of free speech thriller as the opening film of the festival with the world premiere set for September 2nd. This is 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. The rest of the line-up will be confirmed on the 23rd, with some spoiler on Monday when TIFF announces some of their line-up.
From Boyle:
“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, 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.”
