Trainspotting

Oscar-winning film writer and director Danny Boyle is attempting to get the cast of his 1996 cult hit Trainspotting together for a sequel to coincide with the 20th anniversary of its release.He is already working on a screenplay with his longtime collaborator John Hodge, which will feature all the original characters, now in their forties. Trainspotting, is a memorable trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focused on Mark Renton’s (Ewan McGregor) attempt to give up his heroin habit and his relationship with family and friends, including Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) dim Spud (Ewen Bremner), psycho Begbie (Robert Carlyle), and 14 year-old Diane (Kelly Macdonald – Who called him a “Deadbeat” in one of the deleted scenes lol)

Danny Boyle often used to joke that when a generation had passed and the actors had aged they would make another film with the same actors playing the same characters. So with the 20th anniversary approaching, would be a very good time to do it and justifies a sequel because there is something cogent to work on, which is the passage of time and what it’s done to these people, who in their early 20s were hedonists and prepared to take enormous risks with what they put into their bodies and how they behaved. Of course, when you get into your forties, it’s not so easy and there are not quite as many guarantees that you’ll get away with it.”There is also likely to be a memorably gruesome toilet scene, In the meantime 56-year-old Boyle is busy promoting his latest film, Trance, a twisty, London-set thriller in which James McAvoy plays an art thief who loses his memory and forgets where he has hidden the painting he has stolen, while Rosario Dawson stars as a hypnotist who is trying to help him remember.