{"id":338940,"date":"2025-10-28T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:27:09","slug":"danny-boyles-pic-on-rupert-murdoch-adds-claire-foy-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338940\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Boyle&#8217;s Pic On Rupert Murdoch Adds Claire Foy To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Emmy-winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/claire-foy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_claire-foy\" data-tag=\"claire-foy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claire Foy<\/a> is set to join Jack O\u2019Connell and Guy Pearce in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ink\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ink\" data-tag=\"ink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ink<\/a>, a Studiocanal, Media Res and House Productions pic that revolves around the rise of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rupert-murdoch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a>\u00a0empire. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/danny-boyle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_danny-boyle\" data-tag=\"danny-boyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danny Boyle<\/a> is directing. Studiocanal is launching worldwide sales at AFM and will co-represent domestic sales with WME Independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is based on the Tony-nominated play by multi-Olivier award-winning playwright\u00a0and screenwriter\u00a0James Graham. Graham\u00a0has written the screenplay with production now underway.\u00a0The film is an explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news \u2014 one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today. James Graham, who penned the original play, has adapted the screenplay with plans to shoot this October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPearce will play Murdoch, O\u2019Connell will play Larry Lamb, who Murdoch hired to run\u00a0The Sun\u00a0when he purchased it in 1969 and Foy will play an ambitious editor who joins the Sun and works closely with Lamb. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBoyle produces with Tessa Ross\u00a0and Michael Ellenberg.\u00a0The film reunites Boyle and Ross following their collaboration on\u00a0Slumdog Millionaire. Tracey Seaward\u00a0also\u00a0produces. Tonia Davis is an EP.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Media Res optioned James Graham\u2019s play\u00a0of the same name directed by Rupert Goold.\u00a0Studiocanal is fully financing the film. Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin will oversee for the company. Studiocanal will release theatrically in their territories of the UK, France, Germany, Poland. Benelux, Australia and NZ.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Alwin H. Kuchler\u00a0is director of photography, Gareth Pugh &amp;\u00a0Carson McColl. are on\u00a0as production &amp; costume designers, Finn Oates\u00a0as editor, Gail Stevens &amp; Rebecca Farhall\u00a0are casting the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFoy is coming off rave reviews following the premiere of her Plan B production H is for Hawk at the recent Telluride Film Festival. The film was picked up by Roadside Attractions for distribution and recently had screened at the London Film Festival and AFI. She is repped by UTA and Independent Talent Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Claire Foy is set to join Jack O\u2019Connell and Guy Pearce in Ink, a Studiocanal, Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,104634,208,171,50288,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-338940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-claire-foy","10":"tag-danny-boyle","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ink","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115453207757499304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}