Original cast returns for “Trainspotting 2”

Moving fast to a preemptive deal, Sony label TriStar has landed the package, worldwide rights included, to the sequel of “Trainspotting”, the seminal 1990s film with Danny Boyle back in the director's chair.

Also returning to the film project are the original principal cast, including Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Robert Carlyle. John Hodge, who wrote the script for the original adaptation, is also back as writer.

The original movie adapted the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh and told of group of lower income heroin users in Edinburgh drifting through their lives. McGregor was the movie's narrator and lead, surrounded by Miller's Sick Boy, a drug dealer, Carlyle's Begbie, a violent sociopath, and Bremner's Spud, a dim but genial friend. Considered among the best British films ever made, it launched McGregor's career and put Boyle on the world stage.

Source: THR