TRAINSPOTTING 2 Cast Confirmed and Release Date Set for 2017
TriStar Pictures recently announced that it has acquired worldwide rights to Danny Boyle’s highly-anticipated sequel to Trainspotting! The movie still doesn’t have an official title, but it will see the return of the original characters created by Irvine Welsh.
Boyle will reunite with screenwriter John Hodge, and as we’ve already heard, the entire principal cast of the 1996 film will return to reprise their roles. That includes Ewan McGregor as Rentorn, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Ewen Bremner as Spud, and Robert Carlyle as Begbie.
The press release also reveals that the film will start shooting in late spring 2016, and they are planning to release it in 2017 to mark the 21st anniversary of the original movie. Boyle had this to say in a statement:
“It’s been 20 years since we met these characters and John Hodge’s screenplay brilliantly explores what’s happened to them—and to us—in the intervening years. We are grateful to Tom and Hannah for their support and we can’t wait to get going.”
Tristar’s Hannah Minghella added:
“Trainspotting was a seminal movie for me. Like almost everyone my age, I had the ‘Choose Life’ poster on my university dorm room wall. I have wanted to work with Danny ever since, so the opportunity to collaborate on the sequel is truly a dream come true. It perfectly represents the filmmaker-driven movies I am committed to making at TriStar.”
Carlyle previously said that this script fro Trainspotting 2 was one of the best scripts he’s ever read, which tells me that fans of the original are going to be very happy with what Boyle is doing.
The sequel is loosely based on Welsh’s Tainspotting follow-up novel, Porno, but it has been explained that the movie will be its own thing. I can’t wait to see how it turns out!