Are you ready for a Trainspotting sequel?
Danny Boyle is finally ready to make a Trainspotting sequel.
There were rumors several years ago that producers were interested in rebooting the 1996 film Trainspotting. Since then, the director released Trance, and in just a few weeks, the Steve Jobs biopic will be hitting theaters everywhere.
According to Deadline, Danny Boyle says it is finally happening:
“All the four main actors want to come back and do it. Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series,” Boyle says.
Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy crime drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald. Based on thenovel of the same name by Irvine Welsh.
The two actors tied to American TV series are Jonny Lee Miller (aka Sick Boy), has been recently working on CBS’ Elementary playing a modern day, recovering addict version of Sherlock Holmes. The other is Robert Carlyle, who is really great at ABC’s Once Upon A Time as Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin. Both actors have expressed their interest in the project, along with Ewan McGregor, who filming his new movie American Pastoral in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Academy Award nominated screenplay by John Hodge centers around a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s area of Edinburgh. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in “culturally rich” Edinburgh.
Screenwriter John Hodge has also returned — he penned the original movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel — as he has finished the script for Trainspotting 2, .
