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Netflix has dropped the full official trailer for Ink, Danny Boyle’s fast and flashy drama about the birth of Britain’s most notorious tabloid. Guy Pearce plays a young Rupert Murdoch and Jack O’Connell plays editor Larry Lamb as the two men turn a failing broadsheet called The Sun into a sensation. The film opens in select theaters on December 11 and streams on Netflix from January 8, 2027 in the U.S. and Latin America.
The trailer, released November 10, passed 900,000 views on Netflix’s YouTube channel within a day, and it lands in a crowded awards-season window alongside A24’s The Debut.
Watch the Ink trailer
The new footage leans hard into Boyle’s trademark energy: tilted camera angles, roaring printing presses and a newsroom that feels more like a heist crew than a paper. Netflix’s synopsis describes “two ink-stained mavericks” in London, 1969, who are determined to topple Britain’s press establishment by giving readers exactly what they want.
What is Ink about?
Ink is based on James Graham’s play of the same name, which premiered in London’s West End in 2017 and moved to Broadway in 2019, where it earned Tony recognition. Graham adapted his own script for the screen.
The story covers the moment an ambitious Australian newspaper owner bought The Sun in 1969 and hired Larry Lamb, a Yorkshire newsman with a chip on his shoulder, to reinvent it. Their bet on gossip, sport, competitions and shock headlines changed British journalism and, arguably, the global media business. If you know Boyle’s true-story films like 127 Hours and Steve Jobs, this is the same playbook applied to Fleet Street.
Ink cast
- Jack O’Connell as Larry Lamb, editor of The Sun
- Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch
- Claire Foy as Jules Davies, a composite of several reporters from the era
- Jonathan Hyde in a supporting role
Boyle told IndieWire at Telluride that he spent years getting the film made and personally asked Pearce to stay attached through the delays. O’Connell comes off a breakout year that included Sinners and 28 Years Later, his second collaboration with Boyle.
Ink release date: theaters and Netflix
- World premiere: Venice International Film Festival, September 2, 2026 (opening film)
- Select theaters: December 11, 2026
- Netflix: January 8, 2027 (U.S. and Latin America)
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
The film was produced by StudioCanal, with Netflix holding streaming rights in the U.S. and Latin America. The December theatrical window suggests Netflix wants Ink in the awards conversation.
What critics said at Venice
Reviews out of Venice were warm but not unanimous. IndieWire summarized the response as praise for the film’s entertainment value with some reservations that it treads familiar territory, while DiscussingFilm argued it doesn’t hold its subjects fully accountable. Some YouTube commenters also raised concerns about reported use of generative AI in the production; Netflix has not detailed what, if anything, was used, so that remains unconfirmed.
If you’d rather start smaller, here is the shorter teaser Netflix released after the Venice premiere:
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Sources: Netflix Tudum, Netflix on YouTube, IndieWire, TheWrap, DiscussingFilm