Trainspotting, danny boyle s movie about four scottish wastrels throwing their lives away on heroin, came out in 1996, and if you go back and watch it now, every squalid frame of it pulses. Danny boyle was in new york on tuesday night to premiere his. Trainspotting sequel coming in 2016 with original cast. Danny boyle stated his wish to make a sequel to trainspotting based on porno which takes place nine years later.
T2 trainspotting books irvine welsh official website. The original cast included ewan mcgregor, ewen bremner, jonny lee miller and robert carlyle as a. The hollywood reporter spoke at the premiere with boyle, not just about trance, but also rumors of a trainspotting sequel, his declaration that he wont do a james bond film, and hanging out with. Trainspotting sequel on track says danny boyle film. Boyle told deadline that his next project will be a sequel to his 1996 dark comedydrama trainspotting.
Trainspotting author irvine welsh wrote a sequel novel, porno. Boyle told the hollywood reporter that another book of welshs has the. Book of the day dead mens trousers by irvine welsh a last hurrah for. However, boyle previously described porno as not a great book in the way that trainspotting, the original novel, is genuinely a. T2 trainspotting is a 2017 british black comedy drama film, set in and around edinburgh, scotland. Based on the 1993 novel of the same title by irvine welsh, the film was released in the united kingdom on 23 february 1996 the academy awardnominated screenplay by john hodge follows a. Hodge wrote the sequel script based on welshs porno, which was the authors own sequel to his original trainspotting novel. However, boyle agrees with mcgregor that the source material. Danny boyle on a trainspotting sequel, fearing james. Trainspotting author irvine welsh has spoken to nme about the upcoming.
Grim as it was, the first novel was also laughoutloud funny, as was the 1996 movie directed by danny boyle, starring ewan macgregor and. A trainspotting sequel will be danny boyles next movie. Ewan mcgregor as mark rent boy renton ewen bremner as daniel spud murphy jonny lee miller as simon sick boy williamson robert carlyle as francis franco begbie kevin mckidd as thomas tommy mackenzie kelly macdonald as diane coulston peter mullan as swanney mother superior susan vidler as. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content, trainspotting shot welsh to fame, precipitated further by the release of the film, by danny boyle. The recent release of danny boyles sequel t2 trainspotting 2017 reaffirms the cultural importance of both irvine welshs novel trainspotting 1993 and. Danny boyle has said he is planning a sequel to trainspotting that could find its way to the big screen for 2016, the 20th anniversary of the cult film about edinburgh drug addicts. Director danny boyle discusses trainspotting sequels tortured development, and fears hell get crucified if he doesnt get it right. Contradiction and resolution in trainspotting diva portal. Much of the film was taken from the irvine welsh novel porno his followup to trainspotting, so were supposed to say. I love the movies, i love the books, but im not the right guy for those. Along with the story of begbies encounter with his old, drunk father taken from the original trainspotting novel and explaining the title of both. A sequel to boyles 1996 film trainspotting, t2 stars the original ensemble. The 1996 cult hit and the new sequel star ewan mcgregor, jonny lee miller.
Danny boyle rules out more trainspotting films at the moment bbc. How danny boyle blew the sequel to trainspotting variety. I didnt mean to do this as a sequel to trainspotting. T2 trainspotting mark renton series book 3 and over 8 million other books. Danny boyle reveals some new information about the upcoming trainspotting sequel. In march 20, boyle said he wanted to make a sequel that would be loosely based on porno which he had described as not a great book in the way that trainspotting, the original novel, is genuinely a masterpiece. Final book in trainspotting series remains a window into. Trainspotting director danny boyle offers new details on. Trainspotting is a 1996 british black comedy crime film directed by danny boyle and starring ewan mcgregor, ewen bremner, jonny lee miller, kevin mckidd, robert carlyle, and kelly macdonald in her debut. Trainspotting was based on a novel by irvine welsh, who wrote a sequel called porno. Why danny boyle wants a trainspotting spinoff over a third film. While the original trainspotting focused sharply on mcgregors renton, t2 seemed to find more. The director said, all the four main actors want to come back and do it. Now a major film directed by danny boyle reuniting the cast of trainspotting.
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