Few filmmakers have freewheeled between genres and topics quite as gracefully as Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). The Academy Award winner has directed everything from zombie horror with28 Days Later, science fiction with Sunshine to the world of Steve Jobs but for his next movie, Boyle is turning his attention to the newspaper business, and more precisely, the group of people who helped change British journalism forever.
The first teaser trailer for Ink has officially been released ahead of the movie’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The movie will receive a limited theatrical release beginning December 11 before arriving on Netflix in the United States and Latin America on January 8. Based on the Olivier Award-winning play of the same name, Ink has been described as an “explosive cinematic roller coaster”.
Based on James Graham’s Tony-winning play of the same name, and starring Jack O’Connell (Sinners), alongside Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) and Claire Foy (The Crown), Boyle’s new film tears open the world of tabloid journalism in electrifying fashion. The film is an explosive cinematic roller coaster 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.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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What Is ‘Ink’ About?
The movie follows a young Rupert Murdoch as he takes over a struggling The Sun. Murdoch teams up with ambitious editor Larry Lamb, and the pair build a smutty, trashy product that focuses on what the working class actually want in their lives, and in doing so, transforming the media landscape. Murdoch is an Australian who holds bitterness towards the British Establishment for not allowing him to play in their sandbox, while Lamb is a working-class northerner from Yorkshire, and Murdoch approaches Lamb with the goal of overtaking the number one newspaper in Britain, The Daily Mirror, within one year. Lamb soon realizes that readers do not necessarily want heavy political coverage. He reshapes The Sun around what people actually love in their daily lives: TV listings, weather, sports, gossip, and sex.
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