The ’90s cult classic Trainspotting – your number one source of dead baby-related nightmare fuel – may finally be getting a sequel, if director Danny Boyle is true to his word.
During a recent interview to promote his Steve Jobs biopic, Boyle said that his next project will be a sequel to the 1996 film, and now it’s just a matter of wrangling everybody into the same place at the same time.
He told Deadline:
“All the four main actors want to come back and do it. Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together, which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series.”
The film will based Porno, the 2002 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, which picks up a decade after the events of the original, and features the porn industry, rather than heroin, as its backdrop.
The “four main actors” that Boyle alludes to are likely Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kevin McKidd – Miller currently stars on Elementary, while McKidd features on Grey’s Anatomy.
McGregor and Boyle are rumoured to have had a falling out involving casting choices for the 2000 film The Beach – which starred Leonardo DiCaprio – but since appear to have buried the hatchet.
It’s always a risk when beloved pop cultural touchstones return after a long time away (cc: the fourth season of Arrested Development), so we’re crossing our fingers Danny Boyle gets this one right.
via Complex
