Danny Boyle to make 'Trainspotting 2'

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*:

Filth

The works of Irvine Welsh have always tackled addiction in the most confronting ways. Filth is no different. It has all the hallmarks of an Irvine Welsh story; the snappy dialogue, the scathing commentary on Scottish life and the drugs. Oh, those drugs.

Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) is a Detective Sergeant in the Edinburgh with high aspirations. After the murder of a Japanese student, he is offered the position of Detective Inspector if he solves the crime. Meanwhile, he sabotages the efforts of his colleagues, who are also after the position, and makes the life of his Masonic brother, Bladesey (Eddie Marsan), hell.

Underneath all the madness, Filth is a pretty funny movie. Bruce is a horrible person, but he is also charming as hell and it's easily understandable how he gets away with things that he does. This is made more apparent by McAvoy's excellent portrayal of the character. McAvoy possesses the right amount of skill to play such a character. His chemistry with the rest of the cast, in particular Marsan, is electric. Never before has there been a more reprehensible corrupt police officer portrayed on film (Harvey Keitel is still playing catch up in my book). Much like how Daniel Craig played a likeable villain before he scored the role of James Bond, I see the same future for McAvoy.

The rest of the cast did a superb job, although they were all relegated to minor characters next to the powerhouse that is Bruce Robertson. Jamie Bell (of Billy Elliott fame) did a superb job of playing rookie cop Ray Lennox, Imogen Poots is fantastic as rival detective Amanda Drummond and stalwart of British cinema, Jim Broadbent is hilarious as Dr. Rossi, who I think was supposed to be Australian, but I'm not sure.

Verdict: All in all an entertaining journey into the messed up mind of a coke addicted cop who needs some serious help. Also has a great cameo with David Soul, who was the original Hutch in the Starsky and Hutch TV series.