Danny Boyle's 'Ink' to open Venice film fest

'Ink', by Oscar- and BAFTA-winning

director Danny Boyle (28 Years Later, Trainspotting, Slumdog

Millionaire), will be the opening film, a world premiere in

competition, of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival

(September 2-12), the festival said Thursday.

Written by playwright and screenwriter Olivier James Graham

(Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit), and starring Jack O'Connell,

Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy, Ink will have its world premiere on

Wednesday, September 2nd in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del

Cinema on the Lido di Venezia, on opening night.

.It stars Pearce as Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch

and O'Connell as newspaper editor Larry Lamb.

The film adapts the acclaimed stage play about the rise of the

Murdoch media empire and the founding of the tabloid newspaper

The Sun in the 1960s.

It describe itself as "the story of a group of bold misfits who

changed journalism by giving people a fresh, sensational style

of news."

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