Danny Boyle Reveals Plans for a Trainspotting Sequel0

Written by Parveen Maghera

Danny Boyle revealed to The Playlist of a pos­si­ble upcom­ing sequel to the 1996 Trainspotting, which starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller among oth­ers. Boyle has plans to reunite the orig­i­nal cast for the sequel.

John Hodge, who had writ­ten the first instal­la­tion, is get­ting the screen­play going.

“There’s always been this long term plan for Trainspotting 2, if John can pro­duce a decent enough script, I don’t think there will be any bar­ri­ers to Ewan or any of the cast com­ing back,” Boyle said. “I think they’ll wanna know that the parts are good so they don’t feel like they are let­ting any­one down.”

Boyle fur­ther men­tioned that they were push­ing for this sequel as “peo­ple cher­ish the orig­i­nal, peo­ple remem­ber it or have caught up with it if they never saw because they were younger.”

“So you want to make sure you don’t dis­ap­point peo­ple,” he continued.

According to Boyle, the sequel will not be a direct adap­ta­tion of the book, Porno. Instead, it will only be loosely based upon.

“There’s a cou­ple of things that are based on the book, but obvi­ously we’d have to have Irvine on board.” Boyle said. “The ideal time would be Porno in 2016 because it was 1996 when Trainspotting came out. 20 years, it’s like wow, where did that go.”

- The Playlist