The long-awaited Trainspotting sequel looks like it’s finally happening, with director Danny Boyle confirming the sequel has moved to the front of the line to become his next film project.
“All the four main actors want to come back and do it,” Boyle revealed to Deadline during the Telluride Film Festival, where the director screened a “work in progress”; cut of his upcoming biopic Steve Jobs.
The biggest stumbling block, he admits, is reuniting the cast. “Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series,” Boyle says (Robert Carylye plays Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold on Once Upon a Time, while Jonny Lee Miller is currently filming his fourth season as Sherlock Holmes on Elementary; Kevin McKidd, whose character died in the original, is a series regular on Grey’s Anatomy,).
The sequel would follow up on the lives of the Edinburgh drug addicts in the original (which also included Ewan McGregor and Kelly Macdonald) 20 years later.
Boyle’s confirmation jibes with earlier comments from McGregor, who said, “I would be up for [a sequel],”; while Carlyle said in July that a Trainspotting sequel is “closer than it’s ever been.”