'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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