British director Danny Boyle has hinted that his next projectwill be the long-awaited sequel to his 1996 hit Trainspotting, a bleak comedy about the lives of heroin addicts in Edinburgh.
According to Boyle, who was speaking to Deadline, “all the four main actors want to come back and do it”.
The original film starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle, as well as Kevin McKidd (whose character, Tommy, dies during the course of the film) and Kelly MacDonald.
Boyle added: “Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together, which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series.”
He was referring to Miller, who stars as Sherlock Holmes in CBS's Elementary , and Carlyle, who has a role in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon A Time.
Based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name, Trainspotting was widely praised by critics upon its release, and hailed as one of the most important British films of all time.
The film’s famous “choose life” monologue, in which McGregor’s character Renton unfavourably compares the drudgery of conventional everyday living to a life of heroin addiction, went on to achieve something of a cult status, becoming one of the best known movie speeches of all time, and adorning countless bedroom posters .