After his grand return to his rage virus saga with “28 Years Later,” director Danny Boyle is looking to bring the Rupert Murdoch stage play “Ink” to the big screen and has added British actress Claire Foy (“The Crown,” “The Girl In The Spider’s Web”) to the film’s lineup, who will join previously announced cast members Jack O’Connell (“Sinners,” “28 Years Later”) and recent Oscar-nominee Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”).
The news of the casting addition hails from Deadline, as the film’s story will explore the early days of the Murdoch Family’s media empire in the United Kingdom, when they bought and took over The Sun in 1969 with Pearce in the Murdoch role as O’Connell will play Larry Lamb tasked to run the tabloid outlet and Foy now firmly set in the role of an ambitious editor from the paper that works closely with Lamb.
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“Ink,” with production said to have begun this month, is based on the hit Tony-nominated stage play with a script from winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham, who was also behind the original stage version. StudioCanal, which is behind the new Murdoch pic and fully financing it, is launching worldwide sales at the American Film Market and will co-represent domestic sales alongside WME.
Despite his lengthy work in the world of genre, Boyle isn’t entirely green to the world of dramatic biopics, with his punk rock limited series “Pistol” focusing on the iconic British group The Sex Pistols, “Steve Jobs” led by Michael Fassbender (an Oscar-nominated performance) as the innovative public face of tech-giant Apple, and the James Franco-led (also nabbed a Best Actor Oscar nomination) survival drama “127 Hours” also taking a page from true-life events.
Given the nature of the play that is being adapted, we suspect more well-established names will be added to the cast of “Ink” in the coming days and weeks as filming continues on Boyle’s latest feature effort.
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