This past Friday,
Sony's TriStar Pictures secured the worldwide rights to Danny Boyle's sequel to
Trainspotting, which has been set to begin production in the spring for 2017
release. Original cast members, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen
Bremner, and Robert Carlyle are set to reprise their roles of Renton, Sick
Boy, Spud, and Begbie, respectively.
Original screenwriter
John Hodge, who won an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of Irvine
Welsh's Trainspotting novel, is also penning the sequel. Trainspotting is set
in the late 1980s and follows a group of heroin addicts in a poor neighborhood
of Edinburgh.
The sequel is based on Welsh's own sequel to
Trainspotting. Titled Porno, the novel is set ten
years after the events of Trainspotting, and follows Sick
Boy's (Miller) return to Edinburgh after having failed as a
hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman in London. "Sick
Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the
dice. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic
movie, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. In the
world of Porno, though, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton
find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the
increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most
of all, with each other."
"Trainspotting was a seminal movie for me," said
TriStar president Hannah Minghella. "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."
Source - Variety
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