28 Years Later’s Danny Boyle’s Next Movie Is About Rupert Murdoch, Cast Revealed

Danny Boyle’s next movie has been announced.

Boyle recently directed 28 Years Later, the long-awaited sequel to 2022’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. That movie is being followed by at least one more movie, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which Boyle is producing and Candyman’s Nia DaCosta is directing. 

There’s also a third movie in the new 28 Years Later trilogy that’s in development that Boyle plans to direct; however, Boyle said in June 2025 that they were “still trying to get the money” for that film, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Now, per Deadline, plans for Boyle to direct a movie about media mogul Rupert Murdoch have also been unveiled.

What do we know about Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch movie?

Guy Pearce, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for his performance in 2024’s The Brutalist, is in talks to play Murdoch in the movie, which is titled Ink. Sinners Jack O’Connell, who also appeared at the end of 28 Years Later, is being eyed to play Larry Lamb, “who Murdoch hired to run The Sun when he purchased it in 1969.”

“An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news – one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today,” Deadline’s article further notes about Ink’s plot. “…Based on the James Graham play, follows Murdoch’s struggling newspaper, The Sun, as he intends to make it a must-read news source and hires Lamb to run the paper. The purchase of the paper would start a long-standing rivalry between The Sun and The Mirror, leading to the rise of the British tabloids as we know them.”

The Studiocanal, Media Res, and House Productions movie is being produced by Boyle, Tessa Ross, Michael Ellenberg, and Tracey Seaward, while Tonia Davis serves as an executive producer. Graham wrote the screenplay for the movie, which is expected to begin production this October.

A release date for Ink has not yet been announced.

Source: Comingsoon.net