Trainspotting director Danny Boyle has announced that the oft-mooted sequel to 1996’s cult classic is a goer — as long as he can get all four principle actors together at the same time.
Look, I’m not a fucking buftie, and that’s the end of it!
Boyle dropped the bombshell while promoting his forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic, whipping up a storm of publicity that a cynic might dismiss as a load of PR-savvy bollocks to raise the profile of his current project. But no. The script is written, the actors (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewan Bremner) are on board, and all that remains is to get them all on set at the same time.
And that last caveat is where Trainspotting 2 may still hit the buffers. McGregor is a busy movie actor and both JLM and Carlyle play leading roles in popular American television series, so finding a window in their schedules will be no easy task. That script, by original Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, is based on Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno, and is set a decade after the events of the first film with heroin kicked and filth the new vice of choice. On paper, what could go wrong? With Trainspotting‘s legacy as a genuine classic assured, one might argue that it doesn’t really matter if number two turns out to be, as Renton would have it, “shite”. But there’s always a chance that the follow-up is that rare thing: a sequel that lives up to the original. Either way, it looks as though Trainspotting 2 is happening, whether we like it or not.
P.S. as if there were ever a bad time to revisit Stylorouge‘s iconic poster design (of which there is a great story about on the Film4 website), here it is…
