Danny Boyle’s cult classic Trainspotting sequel is finally moving forward with a script penned by John Hodge. Actor Ewan McGregor, who played Renton in the original film, confirmed that the untitled sequel will begin filming this year.
“We haven’t started yet, we start shooting at the end of May. The script only arrived very recently, which was really, really, really good. I think, if that had not happened, none of us would be into it,” McGregor said to Collider about Hodge’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s follow-up novel Porno. “I think we’re all sort of somewhat protective of what Trainspotting means to people, and what it means to us. None of us want to make a poor sequel to it. So had we not been presented with the most extraordinary script, which we were, I think we wouldn’t be making the sequel. But because we were, we are.”
“It’s been 10 years since Irvine Welsh wrote the sequel novel, Porno, so it’s been a long time, a lot of speculation,” he added. “10 years ago, I didn’t want to do it; I wasn’t ready to do it. Also, there was no script.”
Last year, Boyle told The Hollywood Reporter that McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Robert Carlyle were all on board for the sequel. The original Trainspotting film hit theaters in 1996.
