A lot can happen in 20 years. Marriage, families, divorce, death, addiction, recovery, success, failure, birth….you get the idea. And for Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle), their wild lives could’ve gone in any direction after “Trainspotting.” Well, we’re about to find out what’s happened to them all as the first trailer for Danny Boyle‘s “T2: Trainspotting” (yeah, I still don’t know about that title either) has landed. And while plot details have been under wraps thus far, earlier this year, author Irvine Welsh teased where we now find the characters.
“It’s very much telling a story about Edinburgh as it currently is. The main element to the story is basically Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud getting back together again, and it tells the story of them getting involved in the vice industry in a very innovative way,” he told Vice. “I think it has some fantastic set pieces and great opportunities for the actors to knock it out of the park, so I’m very excited. I just know that Danny will come up with this amazing visualisation. I think it’s going to be excellent. The thing that’s going to be interesting is seeing how the young kids in the multiplex cinemas get on with it now, because they’re older guys – it’s not going to be a youth movie like Trainspotting was. It could be like watching your uncle dance at a wedding. Hopefully it will be fun and crazy enough. It’s got the potential for some great, incendiary performances from the actors.”
“T2: Trainspotting” opens in the UK on January 27, 2017, and will arrive in cinemas stateside on February 3, 2017 in limited release, before going wide on February 10, 2017.