Danny Boyle confirms Trainspotting 2
Really?
Danny Boyle could make any movie he now wishes, and yet, he told Starpulse that he’s got the idea and a draft of the script done for a Trainspotting 2. “Oh, it’s gonna be so different. The idea of it is that take the same actors, playing the same characters, in the same time, so all that’s the same – but they’re forty. It’s middle aged and that’s what it becomes about. Like when you’re twenty you think you can do anything with your body basically, the risks you take. When you look back at what you’ve done you think oh my god and they hit forty and they can’t do that anymore. And it’s triggered by Begbie, the Robert Carlyle character comes out of jail. So you can keep him in jail for five years, ten years, fifteen, whatever the story needs. And in the book, cause Irvin Welsh had written a sequel to it, he escapes from jail. John’s done a preliminary draft of the script and he has this great escape from jail – it’s really cool. Very funny and very crazy and then he re-ignites the whole chain of friendship if you like, but they are now different guys trapped like so many people are really, trapped in their hometown.”
He believes all of the original cast will return too, even Ewan McGregor. While this doesn’t sound like something that would happen next year, if anyone could make a damn good sequel to a film no one wants a sequel to, it’s Danny Boyle. Thoughts?
The original is in my top 10. I don’t know about a sequel (although there is a sequel to the book), but I’d check it out anyway.