London, Aug. 20 -- Oscar winning filmmaker Danny Boyle will direct 'Ink', a picture that revolves around the rise of the Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's empire.

Sources tell Deadline that the film, a Studiocanal, Media Res and House Productions, revolves around the rise of the Rupert Murdoch empire.

Oscar nominee Guy Pearce is in talks to play the media mogul and NewsCorp founder and Jack O'Connell is in negotiations to play Larry Lamb, who Murdoch hired to run The Sun when he purchased it in 1969.

Based on the James Graham play, follows Murdoch's struggling newspaper, The Sun, as he intends to make it a must-read news source and hires Lamb to run the paper.

The purchase of the paper would start a long-standing rivalry between The Sun and ...