Danny Boyle Talks ‘Ink’, The Common Architecture Of His Movies And More ‘28 Years Later’ As He Receives The Deadline Legend Award

Danny Boyle said his films share a recurring structure: a character, often a man, faces overwhelming odds and overcomes them. Speaking as he received the Deadline Legend Award, he credited a French journalist with making him recognise this pattern and said viewers keep returning to it across his varied filmography.

Boyle’s new film, *Ink*, follows Rupert Murdoch and editor Larry Lamb as they try to make *The Sun* overtake the *Mirror* within a year by pioneering a new tabloid style. Based on James Graham’s play, the film opened the Venice Film Festival and is due in cinemas on 11 December. Boyle said its comic first half later reveals the costs of the methods used, and confirmed that US versions will include headlines redacted in the UK because of libel laws.