Danny Boyle‘s next movie will be a return to the UK after current release Steve Jobs, which is enjoying its second weekend at the UK box-office. That return will be Trainspotting 2, which starts production next year. One of the actors returning for the movie is Robert Carlyle who has been heaping praise on screenwriter John Hodge‘s script.
He spoke with the NME.
“Yeah, we’ve already had a read-through of the script, we did that in the springtime. You’re going to think, ‘Of course he’s going to say this,’ but honestly, it’s one of the best scripts I’ve f**king read. I mean, ever. What John Hodge has done is just so clever.”
Hodge wrote the original 1996 screenplay, adapting from Irvine Welsh’s original novel. The new film will be loosely based on Welsh’s Porno. Carlyle, who plays Francis Begbie, elaborated on the story, which revolves around his character, along with Ewan Mcgregor‘s Mark Renton, Jonny Lee Miller‘s Sick Boy and Ewen Bremner‘s Spud.
“Well, obviously these four characters are 20 years older now and I’ve never seen a sequel that takes place 20 years after the original, so I think that gives it a certain unique quality. And of course, the audience is 20 years older too – people who came to see the original film when they were in their early twenties are very different people now. And the way John Hodge has put this thing down, obviously with the help of Danny Boyle, is to make it about how the characters’ lives have moved on… or have they? Without giving anything away, maybe some of them haven’t really moved on. That’s what the audience is going to have to go through with them. I tell you, this film is going to be quite emotional for people. Because the film sort of tells you to think about yourself. You are going to be thinking: ‘F**k. What have I done with my life?'”
We can’t wait. Trainspotting 2 has an ETA of TBA 2017.
