You guys absolutely lost your shit earlier this year when we FYI’d ya that Trainspotting 2 was in the works.
Well, we have some updates for ya. We just wanna make sure you’ve got all the information that’s out there, so you can mentally prepare for the hotly-anticipated sequel.
ONE The second instalment will start filming next year, and it’s confirmed that the entire original cast will be returning. We’re talking Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan Bremner and Robert Carlyle. It’ll be will be helmed by Danny Boyle.
TWOThe sequel will ‘loosely’ follow the plot of Irvine Welsh‘s follow-up to ‘Trainspotting’, which was titled ‘Porno’.
Robert Carlyle, who played the aggressive anti-junk pub-brawler Begbie, recently did an interview with NME and proceeded to hype the sequel to the ends of the earth (so it better be bloody good, ya skag-weasel).
“You’re going to think, ‘Of course he’s going to say this,’ but honestly, it’s one of the best scripts I’ve fucking read. I mean, ever,”“Obviously these four characters are 20 years older now and I’ve never seen a sequel that takes place 20 years after the original, so I think that gives it a certain unique quality,” Carlyle noted. “And the way John Hodge has put this thing down, obviously with the help of Danny Boyle, is to make it about how the characters’ lives have moved on… or have they? Without giving anything away, maybe some of them haven’t really moved on. That’s what the audience is going to have to go through with them. I tell you, this film is going to be quite emotional for people. Because the film sort of tells you to think about yourself. You are going to be thinking: ‘Fuck. What have I done with my life?’”“And though I’m obviously feeling a little bit tense about it because of the success of the first film, I’ll tell you this: if anyone can pull it off it’s Danny Boyle,” he said “He’s the best director I’ve ever worked with, he’s immense.”
Holy. Shit.
Everything about what he’s saying is completely amazing obviously, but did anyone just have a heart attack that it’s been 20 years since the first movie? We did. (He’s right, it came out in 1996. Which was 20 years ago in just over a month. Christ.)
Read NME’s full interview with Carlyle HERE.
