Danny Boyle's new film 'Ink' struck a personal chord with both the director and lead actor Jack O'Connell, they said at its London Film Festival premiere, where the pair were joined on the red carpet by co-star Guy Pearce
Danny Boyle says he used AI to replace an actor’s face with Margaret Thatcher’s in “Ink” because he didn’t want to “use a Thatcher imitator.”
“It was very important to use that we didn’t use a Thatcher imitator,” he said, acknowledging that Thatcher and The Sun editor Lamb’s relationship was well documented. “She used to visit Larry Lamb’s office late at night after the edition had gone out, and they drank whisky together. She’d take her shoes off, curled up on the sofa.”
He also admitted that his didn’t ask the Thatcher state beforehand: “I declined the ask the estate for permission to do that. I don’t think the estate of people like Margaret Thatcher should have control over our ability to insist on ideas in art about what her influence was on our lives. So that was really important.”
Danny Boyle just confirmed generative AI was used in his new film ‘Ink’.
About 30 seconds of it:
→ Animating old photographs
→ Creating mice running around The Sun newsroom
The Oscar-winning director says AI is “a very useful tool” but only if used respectfully and actors still get paid.
Netflix has acquired the North American and Latin American rights to Danny Boyle’s next film, ‘INK’.
• Starring Jack O'Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy.
• Set in 1969, the film follows media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and editor Larry Lamb as they relaunch The Sun newspaper and change the world of tabloid journalism.
Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy star in INK, from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle.
A group of visionaries and misfits 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. Based on the Tony Award-winning play of the same name.
In select theaters December 11 and on Netflix January 8 in the US and Latin America.