Ewan McGregor Reveals 'Trainspotting 2' Shoots This Spring, Renton Back in 2016!
It's been 20 years since Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie and Spud first hit the screens in Trainspotting, with heroin addiction, dark humor and some vast knowledge of Sean Connery. Ewan McGregor, who starred and narrated the 1996 film, has just confirmed the Danny Boyle sequel will begin shooting this spring for a 2016 premiere.
Speaking to Collider's editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub while promoting his role in the Don Cheadle-directed biopic Miles Ahead, McGregor, who rose to fame with the 1996 film, confirmed production was set to begin next May. The film will be released at some point of this year, marking the original's 20th anniversary.
"The script only arrived very recently, which was really, really, really good. I think, if that had not happened, none of us would be into it," McGregor said, speaking about his co-stars, who will be returning as well. "I think we're all sort of somewhat protective of what Trainspotting means to people, and what it means to us. None of us want to make a poor sequel to it. So had we not been presented with the most extraordinary script, which we were, I think we wouldn't be making the sequel."
Irvin Welsh, the author behind Trainspotting, wrote a sequel to the book in 2002, Porno, but it wasn't until now that John Hodge, who wrote the screenplay to the 1996 film, wrote the adaptation. While the book is set 10 years after the events of Trainspotting, 20 will have gone by in the movie sequel, so it's unclear where the story will be heading -- but by Rent-Boy's account, it's somewhere amazing!
For now, the sequel remains untitled, but the cast will be reunited: McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremmer have already signed up for the movie.
The 1996 film enjoys cult status and, 20 years later, still holds a solid rating among critics, with an 89% in critic aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.