Director Danny Boyle confirms 'Trainspotting 2' is in the works
Director Danny Boyle, who helmed the first "Trainspotting" movie, has affirmed he is looking at a sequel for his next project.
Ranked 10th in the Top 100 British films of all time, the 1996 black comedy and crime drama, "Trainspotting" received universal acclaim and multiple film awards as well as made a huge impact on 1990s pop culture.
Its director, Danny Boyle, fresh from this year's biopic project, "Steve Jobs," has confirmed he is making "Trainspotting 2" a priority and will be embarking on the long-awaited sequel soon.
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Boyle told Deadline the main actors from the original film, including Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Ewen Bremner, have expressed their desire to do a sequel, with Boyle admitting it will be a matter of synching all the actors' schedules, with two of them currently attached to a US TV series.
Boyle further said the plot for "Trainspotting 2" will be based on "Trainspotting" Scottish novelist, Irvine Welsh's "Porno," a 2002 novel that takes readers back to the heroin-addicted characters from the original book and is set a decade after the events in "Trainspotting."
"Trainspotting" screenwriter, John Hodge, who also penned two of Boyle's other films, "The Beach" and "A Life Less Ordinary," has already written a script for the sequel, which will be focusing on the four main characters from "Trainspotting" entering into the world of pornography.
It was earlier learned the sequel experienced several delays following an earlier feud that arose between McGregor and Boyle after McGregor was passed over for the lead role in "The Beach," a role that eventually went to Leonardo DiCaprio in 2000. However, both actor and director have since mended the fences.
McGregor, Miller, Carlyle and Bremner have already agreed to reprise their roles for "Trainspotting 2." Miller ("Hackers," "Aeon Flux," "Endgame") who played Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, and Carlyle ("The Full Monty," "The World is not Enough," "28 Weeks Later"), who played Francis "Franco" Begbie in the original film are currently tied up with CBS' "Elementary, and ABC's "Once Upon a Time," respectively.
