EXCLUSIVE: New York-based Incline Studios has unveiled key members of the ensemble cast for its upcoming newsroom thriller Red Ink as the production wraps in the central New York State city of Syracuse.
Set in the city of New York in post-World War Two, the film interrogates media propaganda, institutional power, and exploitation amid the looming threat of a mysterious global virus.
The ensemble cast includes Toby Leonard Moore (John Wick), Siobahn Fallon Hogan (Men in Black), Tommie Earl Jenkins (Wednesday), Eugene Cordero (Loki) as well as Rose Reid (Finding You), Kyle Selig (Welcome to Flatch), Mike Doyle (Almost Love), D.B. Sweeney (The Cutting Edge) , Oona Laurence (The Beguiled), Josh Plasse (iCarly), Michael Barra (The Amazing Spider-Man) Max von Essen (Dexter: Resurrection) and Melissa Putterman-Hoffman.
Unfolding in real time, using uninterrupted one-shot takes to mirror the urgency of a breaking story, the film is set over the course of a single morning in November 1949, inside the bustling New York headquarters of the respected Verity Press.
Moore plays Bob Hoover, Verity’s editor-in-chief and a celebrated war photographer whose Pulitzer-winning photograph helped sway public opinion at the end of World War II.
His calm authority, wit, and quiet moral certainty is challenged by escalating reports of a mysterious affliction hitting the inhabitants of New York and beyond. As the clock races toward the deadline, he and his team scramble to shape the narrative before rival papers and government officials do.
Pressure mounts from the publisher Walter Nash (Sweeney) and Senator Conrad (Doyle), a political operative attempting to steer the narrative toward fear, control, and propaganda.
Bob’s teenage niece Dot, a gifted but reckless photojournalist, is pursuing her own leads in the city at night. Her photographs reveal something deeply unsettling: the images of those carrying the affliction don’t register on film.
The newsroom grapple with the the terrifying possibility that the outbreak may not be a conventional virus at all but something supernatural and dangerous.
Produced by Incline Studios in association with The Dazey Phase, Ignite Studios, and Pine Bay Pictures, Red Ink is directed by Incline Studios co-founders Benjamin J Murray (Clod) and Michael Christensen (Whelp), with a screenplay by Christensen and a story by Murray, Christensen, and Marty Lucero.
“We wanted to approach the world of propaganda from a time when institutional information was trusted, coveted, and immensely powerful. Red Ink is about how modern media often brands certain groups for political gain—how fear turns people into scapegoats before anyone understands what they’re afraid of,” said co-directors Murray and Christensen.
The film is produced by Murray, Marty Lucero, Jake Casey, and Erin Mae Miller, and is executive produced by Brian David Cange, Zachery J. Burns, Jeff Moseley, Nidal Kahl, Brev Moss, and Robert J. Goodwin.
Darren Cogan serves as co-producer. Production design is by Sadra Tehrani, with costume design by Sofija Mesicek.
Incline Studios was launched at the end of 2025 by career filmmakers and entrepreneurs Murray, Christensen, Lucero, Hamish Briggs, and Goodwin with a mission to creating uplifting, original stories that bring adventure and hope back to cinema, their perceived growing gap between IP-driven blockbusters and less accessible, often thematically dark arthouse fare
Moore is represented by Gersh Agency and Sue Barnett & Associates, with management by Prime Talent Media, Fallon Hogan is managed by Framework Entertainment; Jenkins is represented by Artium Talent & Trademark Talent, as well as Creative Artists Management in the UK. Eugene Cordero is represented by Global Artists Agency and managed by Artists First.