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Guy
Pearce plays Murdoch and Jack O’Connell plays Lamb in the film
about how they turned the paper into Britain’s most influential
tabloid. Claire Foy also co-stars.
“Long before Fox News, click bait, and Truth Social; decades
before Twitter, Facebook, Google (and) Only Fans, these (two)
men created a new tabloid which against all the odds became the
biggest selling newspaper in the world,” Boyle said in a
statement. The paper, he added, "challenged the establishment
and remade our world for the modern era.”
Boyle said it was a huge honor to be selected, noting that,
“I’ve been to the Biennale many times, but this is my baptism at
the film festival.”
“Ink” will be playing in competition at the 83rd edition of the
festival, which kicks off on September 2. The full slate of
films vying for the Golden Lion is expected to be revealed next
week.
The play opened in London in 2017, and went to Broadway in 2019,
where it was nominated for, and won, multiple Tony Awards.
“I started writing this way before Trump, way before Brexit,”
Graham told The Associated Press in 2017. “But I knew I wanted
to capture what was clearly in the air about populism."
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