Overview

• Deadline reports Boyle is attached to steer the feature adaptation for Studiocanal.
• James Graham has adapted his award-winning play for the screen, with filming planned to begin in October 2025.
• Guy Pearce is in talks to play Rupert Murdoch, and Jack O’Connell is in negotiations to portray editor Larry Lamb.
• Studiocanal is fully financing, with Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin overseeing, and releases planned in its territories as it handles worldwide sales.
• The film will dramatize Murdoch’s 1969 purchase of The Sun and the ensuing rivalry with The Mirror that helped shape modern British tabloid journalism.