Danny Boyle confirms Trainspotting sequel plans
The sequel to Trainspotting, based on Irvine Welsh's Porno, is being planned for 2016, says Danny Boyle...
If Shallow Grave was the film that put director Danny Boyle on the map in the first place, it was his second movie, Trainspotting, that really elevated him. At some point, we need to have a chat about his underrated third feature - A Life Less Ordinary - but in the meantime, Boyle has admitted that plans for a Trainspotting sequel are finally coming together.
On promotional duties for his new film, Trance, Danny Boyle admitted that John Hodge is working on a screenplay for the film now, which will adapt, loosely, Irvine Welsh's book Porno. Boyle is planning to make the film in 2016, and also is looking to get the cast of the first film back together. Crucially, that'd include Ewan McGregor, with whom Boyle hasn't worked since he passed him over for the lead role in The Beach, in favour of Leonardo DiCaprio.
Boyle said of the project that "The reason for doing it again is that people cherish the original, people remember it or have caught up with it if they never saw because they were younger. So you want to make sure you don't disappoint people"
Should Porno be released in 2016, which is quite likely, then it'd be in time for the - ready to feel old? - 20th anniversary of Trainspotting. Yikes.
We'll keep you posted as we hear more...
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I remember when Porno came out. most of the original cast commented that should the book be the basis for a sequel it would have to have a serious re-write as the story just wasn't up to being made into a film. Hopefully that will be the case as it is weak compared to Trainspotting. A Life Less Ordinary was awful - Boyle goes to Hollywood which really didn't suit him at all.
It's true that Porno wasn't as good as Trainspotting, but the book of Trainspotting was extremely episodic and it was John Hodge that crafted it into something with a "beginning, a middle and an end". Porno, for it's faults, actually has a story. And the bit where Begbie gets run over by a car could be funny.
Personally I'm a massive fan of Life Less Ordinary, people mostly just didn't get its very British quirkiness in the guise of a Hollywood romcom. Its still one of my favourite McGregor performances and Cameron Diaz has rarely looked better, plus the soundtrack is excellent. Great to see it get a mention above.
As for being nearly 20yrs since Trainspotting, yikes, that's scary- I was in 1st year at uni when that film hit and it was of course the posterboy of choice for most student walls at the time (I never bought a poster for that exact reason, I was simply too cool to follow the crowd *cough*) but its still to this day my favourite (just beating 28 Days Later) Boyle movie and cemented him as a guy whose films I will always watch regardless of genre or budget. A true visionary. I'd love to see Porno if it gets all the cast back as long as they just don't try too hard with it. Having not read either of Welsh's books (and no intentions of doing so), I've no standard to hold it to other than the first film- if the characters are consistent and witha much more experienced Boyle I can't see it being anything but great fun.
Being both a fan of the book and then then film, I have to say I'm interested to see if Porno can be made into a film as good as Trainspotting.
Given that Trainspotting is a bit of a ramble at times, introducing one shot characters or characters without either a POV moment for the reader to get into their head or any other real development, I felt that the way the film stream lined the plot and characters into a straight line was a good thing and with it's reduction to just 5 POV characters, Porno always felt more of a sequel to Trainspotting the film rather than Trainspotting the book.
Unlike the other comments here I think porno would be excellent film. Full of crass capers.. My only concern would be the actors ages when they start filming..
So it will be "Porno," not "Trainspotting 2: Electric Boogaloo"?
I tried googling to find out more about the story etc, I got a lot of results but not what I intended...
Read Prono when it came out... not impressed, thought it was very weak. I can only hope it's gets quite a large re-write...