How 'Ink' Recreated The Sun Newsroom with Vintage Equipment
Key Takeaways
- Danny Boyle's film 'Ink' explores Rupert Murdoch's 1969 takeover of The Sun.
- Production designers used working vintage equipment like linotype machines and rotary phones.
- The historic Fleet Street newsroom was recreated in a vacant council building in Bromley, U.K.
- The movie stars Guy Pearce and Jack O'Connell, premiering at the London Film Festival.
Danny Boyle's film 'Ink' chronicles Rupert Murdoch's 1969 takeover of The Sun newspaper on Fleet Street. Production designers Gareth Pugh and Carson McColl aimed to capture a gritty, immediate period aesthetic rather than a traditional period piece look.
Because modern architectural changes erased much of the original Fleet Street landscape, the crew constructed the detailed newsroom set inside a vacant municipal building in Bromley, U.K. They outfitted the space with functional vintage technology, including working rotary phones, old typewriters, and authentic linotype machines to recreate the chaotic energy of the era.
The film stars Guy Pearce as Murdoch and Jack O'Connell as editor Larry Lamb. It premieres at the London Film Festival ahead of a December theatrical release and a January Netflix debut.
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