Danny Boyle's 'Ink' Premieres at Telluride — SkimNews
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- Danny Boyle premiered "Ink" at Telluride's Werner Herzog Theater on Friday for its North American debut, a day after its Venice Film Festival unveiling.
- The film dramatizes Rupert Murdoch's 1969 transformation of a "lightly regarded broadsheet" into Britain's most popular tabloid, with Guy Pearce starring as Murdoch and Jack O'Connell as editor Larry Lamb.
- Deadline's Pete Hammond called Boyle "the perfect filmmaker to bring this world to life," praising the film as "bright, fast-paced and lively" and comparing its energy to the post-moon-landing era it depicts.
- James Graham adapted the screenplay from his own 2018 stage play, which won both the Tony and Olivier awards.
- Ink is set to premiere on Netflix in January, extending its reach well beyond the festival circuit.
- Boyle opened the screening by clarifying the title — "It's not a movie about tattoos, which a lot of people assume it is" — and thanked Telluride executive director Julie Huntsinger for the invitation, calling it "the rush of the ocean to the heart for a filmmaker."
Why it matters: Deadline's rave gives the film early awards-season momentum before its January Netflix premiere opens it to a global streaming audience. The source-play pedigree (Tony and Olivier winner) combined with a Netflix release signals the film's commercial ambitions go well beyond a festival play.
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