By Travis Johnson
Well, there’s not much to see here yet, apart from the visual confirmation that Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle are all back, along with director Danny Boyle, for the two-decades-on sequel to the epochal 1996 junkie dramedy, Trainspotting.
Plot details are thin on the ground right now, too, although it’s a safe bet that author Irvine Welsh’s 2002 literary sequel, Porno, will provide some grist for the script mill. The book saw Miller’s Sick Boy getting into the skin flick business, Bremner’s Spud attempting to document the working class life of Leith while battling his own demons and McGregor’s Renton spending all his spare time practicing karate in case he should ever cross paths with Carlyle’s psychotic Begbie ever again. There’s plenty of story there to translate; if anything, it’s more “filmable” in the traditional sense than the first book.
Other than that, the only thing that is certain is that Trainspotting 2 is due in cinemas on February 9, 2017.
