Ink Trailer: Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch Drama with Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell Lands Ahead of December 11 Release

Netflix has released the official trailer for Ink, Danny Boyle’s drama about the birth of the modern tabloid — and it is one of the most charged two-and-a-half minutes of the awards season so far. The 2-minute-23-second trailer, unveiled on November 10, stars Jack O’Connell as newspaper editor Larry Lamb and Guy Pearce as a young Rupert Murdoch, with Claire Foy as reporter Jules Davies. Set in 1969, the film follows Murdoch’s acquisition of The Sun, then a struggling British daily, and his partnership with Lamb to turn it into a tabloid juggernaut.

The film is adapted by James Graham from his own Tony- and Olivier-winning stage play, which ran in the West End in 2017 and on Broadway in 2019. It premiered as the opening film of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2026, and it arrives in select US theatres on December 11, 2026, before streaming on Netflix in the US and Latin America on January 8, 2027. It runs 116 minutes, is rated R, and was shot by German cinematographer Alwin H. Küchler, who worked with Boyle on Steve Jobs. Blake Harrison, Patrick Kennedy, Angus Imrie and Brian Gleeson co-star.

What makes Ink more than a prestige biopic is the nerve of its subject. Boyle is dramatising the moment the press learned to sell sensation — the paper that would go on to shape British public life for half a century — and he is doing it with the director’s trademark kinetic energy: printing presses, newsroom shouting matches, and, the trailer hints, the kidnapping of a businessman’s wife as the stakes turn criminal. O’Connell, fresh off Sinners and 28 Years Later, is having the year of his career; Pearce, who was in the awards conversation for The Brutalist, plays Murdoch not as a villain but as a sprightly outsider with an idea. That is a braver choice, and a more interesting film.

The release plan is part of the story too. Like our last global trailer, Cliff Booth, which opens in IMAX before streaming, Ink is getting a real theatrical window before its Netflix debut — a sign of how seriously the streamer is taking its awards-season slate. If the trailer’s energy holds for two hours, Ink could be the rare film about newspapers that plays like a thriller. Our last global trailer story: https://filmverse.in/cliff-booth-trailer-2-brad-pitt-david-fincher-quentin-tarantino-imax-november-25/

Watch the official trailer below:

Ink opens in select theatres on December 11, 2026, and streams on Netflix from January 8, 2027.

Source: Netflix, TheWrap, The Playlist, JoBlo, Vital Thrills and ComingSoon.