Danny Boyle has been very busy recently. His Steve Jobs biopic has been getting some early praise from critics - and perhaps more importantly, Steve Wozniak - and today, just before the first public screening, he's announced that he plans for his next project to be Trainspotting 2, the follow-up to his classic 1996 film.
The sequel will be based on Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh's novel Porno which is itself a sequel to the original, which followed a group of Scottish heroin addicts in their passage through life. The film featured arguably one of Ewan McGregor's finest performances and also starred Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd and Robert Carlyle as the infamous Begbie.
Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge has already provided Boyle with a script which he describes as "terrific", set ten years after the events of the first film, 2 will follow the four leads as they venture into the pornographic world. It's reported that McGregor, Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Carlyle have all signed up to appear in the sequel.
P.S: Perhaps most interestingly for me (Ed) is whether 'Underworld' will once again feature heavily in the film. I am personally a huge fan of the electronic band (mainly thanks to 'Trainspotting') and they certainly set the tone for some of its greatest scenes including this ending scene *spoilers*:
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