r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • 23h ago
News Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink,’ Starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, to Open Venice Film Festival
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/danny-boyle-ink-venice-film-festival-1236812367/88
u/gwnner 23h ago
75 minute standing ovation?
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u/Best-Advantage-1607 23h ago
“During the twelve day long standing ovation, three people collapsed from exhaustion. One died from a heart condition. And a child was born. The ovation is said to be the second longest standing ovation in the shows history. Danny Boyle had to continually be rehydrated as he was crying all twelve days.”
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u/HenryDorsettCase47 23h ago
Damn. Did you check out some of the reviews?
"The only time the audience applauded was when I whipped a battery at the performers."
“True story. I fell asleep during the production and when I woke up was so convinced that I was still dreaming, I got up on stage and walked around. The odd thing is, the show is such an ugly mess, that no one seemed to notice or care.”
Wild stuff.
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u/OrangeShark21 23h ago
I understood this reference.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 23h ago
I feel like it’s 30 Rock but I’m not so sure
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u/OrangeShark21 22h ago
Close - its an underappreciated SNL sketch for a Robert Goulet play of "Red Ships of Spain"
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u/michicago44 23h ago
This seems like one of those plots that sounds unbelivably boring at face value but could actually be super interesting if done well (like Margin Call/The Big Short re: the mortgage crisis)
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u/ftgyhujikolp 23h ago
It's Danny Boyle, so I'll see it. Even though I didn't like the direction of the 28 series writing in the most recent ones they were still top notch movies.
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u/MrBigChest 22h ago
I’m a fan of everyone involved and I’m sure it won’t portray him positively but I don’t know if I want to watch a movie about Rupert Murdoch in 2026
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u/Working-Ad-6698 12h ago
I have high trust in Danny "everything is colonialism" Boyle and really hope and wish that Murdoch isn't portayed as the hero or good guy in this.
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u/MrBigChest 2h ago
I’m assuming that he won’t be portrayed positively but I’m just too exhausted by the state of the world
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u/a_horse_named_orb 23h ago
Saw the source material on Broadway. It’s strange and compelling. Bertie Carvel was excellent as Murdoch. Curious what Pearce does with the role.
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u/a_horse_named_orb 23h ago
It’s kind of like the “America Decides” episode of Succession
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u/ElectricalPeace3439 22h ago
Jesse Armstrong wrote an episode that showcased the downfall of the American empire.
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u/burrito_foreskin 21h ago
Damn.. I was hoping for a block buster reimagining of Jamin Winans’ 2009 Indie film of the same title.
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u/1sexymuffhugger 17h ago
I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw that movie! I loved the musical scene close to the end.
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u/burrito_foreskin 17h ago
It’s one of my favorites!
I used to have the signed dvd, t shirt, and poster set. Most likely in a landfill somewhere after my ex and I broke up.
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u/StickyBandit1999 18h ago
So does this mean a 2026 release? It was moved to 2027 I believe during Cinemacon before people saw footage
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u/Salad-Appropriate 23h ago
How have Venice openers done previously?
Still, surprising to see it on here, since it was presumed to be released next year
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u/Flimsy_Fisherman_862 23h ago
Festival openers are usually not big awards players because they don't run in competition.
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u/HotOne9364 23h ago
Please let this be a return to form for Boyle.
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u/QTRqtr 23h ago
28 years later already did.
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u/gladys-the-baker 23h ago
It's generally well received but it's also pretty divisive so I wouldn't quite say it's a return to form.
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u/RobotSifl 23h ago
Just because it was divisive doesn't mean it wasn't a return to form. 28 years is through and through Danny Boyle doing his thing
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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 23h ago
Absolutely, no one else would have made it anywhere near what he did
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 23h ago
not even Nia DaCosta?
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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 23h ago
That’s the perfect example of someone not doing it anywhere near what he did. Same story, main protagonists, locations, time - very different feel. Although great in their own way.
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u/Dottsterisk 23h ago
I think they’re referring to Danny Boyle (and Alex Garland) setting the tone and crafting the DNA for the franchise from the very first film.
DaCosta stepped into the franchise and brought something wonderful to it, but she was still building off what Boyle had built.
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u/ftgyhujikolp 23h ago
I hated it. But only because of the hard turn in narrative. If they hadn't branded it as a 28 days movie I'd have had different expectations.
Zombie movies like 28 days later are about the breakdown of society, futility to change your circumstances, desperation, survival, isolation, horror.
28 years pivoted hard away from that. Which is fine, but I wouldn't even place it in the same genre. It's a coming of age tale with weird plot armor.
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u/QTRqtr 22h ago
And that’s why it’s so great. We’ve had two decades of the same doom and gloom “humans are the real monsters in a zombie apocalypse” type stories that someone not using cynicism as a crutch but deciding to make something beautiful and meaningful is 1000 more creative and daring than the regular cynicism and a 20 min+ sequence of people being skinned alive.
Satanist going around killing people is not new. But a doctor holding on to his humanity regardless of his circumstances to help a boy grieve a killer that wasn’t the zombies he was taught to fear is way more thought provoking for me.
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u/ElectricalPeace3439 22h ago
28YL didn't even shy away from humans being the real monsters. The whole point was how the kid was learning the wrong lessons from his dad. That even his mom can be monstrous. That even the infected can have a soul.
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u/ftgyhujikolp 22h ago
Again. I don't really have a fault with the movie itself.
It's the expectations set by the franchise not being met.
When I went to see it, I thought I was in for a really great zombie popcorn flick with some nice twists on the genre.
What we got wasn't that. There were barely any fights with zombies at all. They were virtually non-threatening.
It's an entirely different movie.
Even if you set it in the same universe and named it "across the channel" or "the aftermath" or something, the expectations would have been different and fewer people would have been let down.
It's like if a new Lord of the rings movie came out and it was all about political intrigue and peace negotiations with mordor. A lot of people would be put off even if it was the best political/spy drama of the decade.
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u/Eugenes_Axe 22h ago
I never find "It wasn't what I expected" to be a compelling argument. So what? The film did what it wanted to do, critique it on that, not what you expected it to be.
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u/ftgyhujikolp 10h ago
I'm not a film critic, I'm a guy who went to see a movie based on a brand.
It's more a marketing failure than anything else.
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u/Eugenes_Axe 2h ago edited 10m ago
I'm not a film critic,
Never said you were, nor do I think that's a requirement for meeting a film on its own terms rather than insisting it does what you thought it was going to do. What's wrong with being surprised by a story?
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u/sithfistoou 23h ago
Yesterday was not good, but otherwise his last films have been among his best. 28 Years Later, T2, Steve Jobs. All great.
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u/MrSpindles 23h ago
I'll watch anything with Jack O'Connell starring, absolutely criminally underrated actor with incredible presence on screen.
That Danny Boyle fella's not too bad at his job either.