Claire Foy Joins Danny Boyle’s Media Drama ‘Ink’

‘The Crown’s Claire Foy Added to Danny Boyle’s UK Newspaper Drama ‘Ink’

Foy joins the previously cast Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell in the story of the rise of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire in the 1980s.

Claire Foy in 'The Crown' season 2. Photo: Stuart Hendry / Netflix.

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Claire Foy is the latest addition to Danny Boyle’s next movie.
The ‘28 Years Later’ director is preparing a film about Rupert Murdoch.
‘Ink’ adapts James Graham’s play.

We previously brought word of ’28 Years Later’ director Danny Boyle’s next planned movie, this time a dip back into familiar territory for him –– a drama based on real events.

‘Ink’ will chronicle Rupert Murdoch’s efforts to save one of his newspapers as his media empire began to build in the UK.

With Jack O’Connell (who was in ‘28 Years Later’) and Guy Pearce (‘The Brutalist’ already aboard, Deadline reports that ‘The Crown’s Claire Foy is joining the cast.

Related Story: Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell in Talks for Danny Boyle’s Latest, ‘Ink’

What’s the story of ‘Ink’?

Claire Foy stars in director Sarah Polley's 'Women Talking.'

‘Ink’, which playwright James Graham is adapting from his stage work, follows 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.

Specifically, it’ll chronicle Murdoch’s struggling newspaper, The Sun, as he intends to make it a must-read news source and hires Larry Lamb (O’Connell) 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.

Foy will play an ambitious editor who works with Lamb.

Boyle has the cameras rolling now.

Where else can we see Claire Foy?

(L to R) Judith Ivey stars as Agata and Claire Foy as Salome in director Sarah Polley’s film 'Women Talking,' an Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit: Michael Gibson. © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The actor, who broke out playing the Queen in Netflix series ‘The Crown,’ has a few projects on the way, including historical comedy drama ‘Savage House’ and ‘The Magic Faraway Tree.’

She’s also the lead in ‘H is for Hawk,’ about a woman who woman who is grieving her beloved father and finds unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. The movie was picked up by Roadside Attractions for release in the US, but it has yet to lock in a date.

When will ‘Ink’ be on screens?

StudioCanal is fully backing the new movie and has a host of territories under its distribution deal, but has yet to announce a date and is still figuring out a partner to handle it in the US.

Danny Boyle (director, '28 Years Later') at CinemaCon 2025 for Sony Pictures at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Stewart Cook/Sony Pictures via Getty Images.