Ink Filming Locations: Where Danny Boyle’s Film Was Shot

Danny Boyle was filming Ink from at least October to December 2025, in London and in West Yorkshire. No official location list has been published, as far as this guide could find, so it separates what Boyle has said himself from what local reporters saw and from what is still only a plan on paper.

Ink tells the story of the 1969 relaunch of The Sun, with Jack O’Connell as editor Larry Lamb, Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch and Claire Foy as Jules Davies. It is based on James Graham’s play. Netflix says the film opens in select US theaters on December 11, 2026, and reaches Netflix in the United States and Latin America on January 8, 2027. In the UK, StudioCanal releases it in theaters on January 8, 2027, Film Stories reports.

Ink filming locations at a glance

• St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London: confirmed by Boyle.
• A print works in Watford: confirmed by Boyle, who did not name it.
• Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: reported by the Halifax Courier and BBC News. The crew was there on October 15, 2025.
• Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire: reported by the same outlets. The crew was there on October 16, 2025.
• Victoria Road, Saltaire: planned for October 16, 2025, in a letter from the production. No report of the shoot itself was found.
• Bromley Palace Park, London: reported by the park’s friends group. Not confirmed by the production.

London: Fleet Street and St Bride’s

Film London’s round-up for December 2025 said Ink was filming across central London that month.

One address is confirmed by the director. In an interview with the BFI, Boyle said the team met printers who run a small museum behind St Bride’s, the journalists’ church just off Fleet Street, and that they were allowed to film there for the memorial scene for Muriel McKay, the kidnapped wife of Murdoch’s deputy.

St Bride’s is a working church, so check its own website for opening times before you go.

Watford: a print works in its final days

At the Venice Film Festival press conference in September 2026, Boyle said that one of the last print works in Watford had been used as a location and that it shut down as the film was wrapping, Deadline reported. He did not name the plant, so it is not named here. At the same event he joked about the title, saying people ask him, “Is it a film about tattoos?”

Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

The crew was in Hebden Bridge on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. The Halifax Courier reported that day that Albert Street was closed for filming, that traders had been given letters warning that a drone would be used, and that one scene was understood to involve a car being driven around. The paper pointed out that Albert Street had recently been a key location for Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women.

BBC News covered both days of the Calderdale shoot on October 17. A barber in the town told the BBC he had filmed a red E-Type Jaguar being driven past his shop four or five times while the crew got the shot.

Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire

On Thursday, October 16, the unit moved to nearby Sowerby Bridge. The Courier’s photo report placed cast and crew on Hollins Mill Lane and Town Hall Street, and said West Street car park was understood to be shut for the shoot. A café owner told the BBC she had served the crew about 50 to 60 takeaway drinks that morning and had been told they were filming a young Murdoch skimming stones by the River Calder.

That last detail is secondhand, and the production has not said what the Calderdale scenes are. It is worth knowing that the Yorkshireman in this story is Lamb, not the Australian Murdoch. According to his Irish Times obituary, Lamb was born in the Yorkshire mining village of Fitzwilliam and got his first reporting job on the weekly Brighouse Echo. Brighouse is in Calderdale too.

Victoria Road, Saltaire

Saltaire is the best documented plan and the least documented shoot. On October 8, 2025, the Telegraph and Argus reported on a letter sent to residents and businesses in the Victorian model village, headed with the logos of StudioCanal, House Productions and Ink Production UK. The letter asked to film two scenes on Victoria Road on Thursday, October 16. One involved a classic car driving the length of the street, followed by a camera on a drone. Modern cars were to be cleared and period cars parked in their place.

The paper said Bradford Council had agreed to a managed closure of Victoria Road between Saltaire Road and Caroline Street, and that filming was expected to take about three hours. The Courier had also written that the crew would move on to another part of West Yorkshire after Calderdale. No later report found for this guide shows the Saltaire scenes being shot, so Victoria Road is listed here as planned and permitted, not as seen on camera.

Bromley Palace Park, London

In February 2026, London Now reported that the Friends of Bromley Palace Park believed the park, in the center of Bromley, had been used for Ink shortly before Christmas 2025. The group shared photos that it said showed Jack O’Connell on set. The production has not confirmed the location.

When was Ink filmed?

The Yorkshire scenes come first in the public record, on October 15 and 16, 2025. London filming was under way by December 2025, and the Bromley report points to the days before Christmas. Boyle’s remark about the Watford print works closing as the film wrapped is the only clue to the end of the shoot, and no wrap date has been published.

The film opened the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2026, the date Variety had given when it reported Netflix’s deal for the US and Latin American rights.

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