Infamous Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch (owner of media outlets like Fox News, The Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post) is getting a biopic from Danny Boyle (“28 Years Later”), as “Ink” is being positioned as the filmmaker’s next project at Studiocanal as there is a new report about two high-profile actors circling the film.
According to Deadline, recent Oscar-nominee Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”) is “in talks” to play Murdoch. Meanwhile, Jack O’Connell, recently seen as a charming vampire in Ryan Coogler‘s “Sinners,” is in negotiations to play Larry Lamb, who was hired by Murdoch to run The Sun back in the late 1960s.
Also, writer James Graham, who was behind the original play the film is based on, is penning the script for “Ink.” Some might remember that the award-winning HBO series “Succession” was said to be directly inspired by the Murdoch Family’s dynamic and dysfunction. Although it looks like this project is a period project rather than tackling more modern events, the play explores the rivalry between The Sun and The Mirror (two extremely popular British tabloids).
Murdoch’s media empire has long been controversial, as many of his newspapers (some of them are tabloids with much lower “journalistic standards”) and TV divisions blur the lines between sourced fact-based reporting and tabloid sensationalism built on political motivations. Applying various politics and business motivations toward stories, as many have noticed, right-wing narratives in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia are often amplified by Murdoch’s outlets to an obscene level, to the point many see Fox News essentially operating as a direct mouthpiece of the Republican Party. Despite their “fair and balanced” tagline, they often push one-sided political talking points as news items.
The network’s defamation overload came to a standstill when multiple anchors kept repeating inflammatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems (connected to Fox News, echoing Donald Trump‘s Big Lie, concerning the results of the 2020 election loss), leading to a lawsuit that saw Murdoch’s company settle for a hefty amount of $787.5 million and the offboarding of Fox News pundit/conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson.
More recently, Trump filed a ridiculous $10 billion lawsuit against Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for publishing a sourced story about the current President’s longstanding links and chummy friendship with the late billionaire child sex trafficker and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
If things come together as planned, filming on “Ink” is said to begin this October and likely could be ready to arrive in theaters/festival circuit in 2026.
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