Venice 2026: Danny Boyle's 'Ink' Film is 'Trainspotting' for Newspapers

"All the news that's fit to print" and often stories that are not fit to print but make people buy the newspaper anyway. Danny Boyle is back again (after 28 Years Later) with another feature film to enjoy - his latest is titled Ink. It's the story of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun and the beginning of the era of salacious, sensational, immoral news. Adapted by James Graham from his own 2017 stage play of the same name, the film is a The Wolf of Wall Street-esque rip-roaring thriller about the madman (or, really, madmen) who took over the newspaper in the 1970s and started to run whatever random stories they could in order to sell more newspapers than any other publisher in the UK at the time. Their main competition was The Daily Mirror, which is where Larry Lamb had worked before running The Sun and setting the stage for the next decades to come and where we are now with fake news galore. Boyle does make this connection – by the end he ties it all together to show that this kind of news sensationalism is what lead us right to this idiotic hellscape the world is in now. It's great to see Boyle return to his more grungy, gritty filmmaking, especially for this story. // Continue Reading ›

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