Danny Boyle confirmed a few months ago that "Trainspotting 2" is happening
And now it already has a release date. During a recent interview, the 59-year-old film director revealed that he is planning to shoot the sequel on spring in time for its release date in 2017.
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Tom Rothman of Sony Pictures and Hannah Minghella of TriStar read the script on Thursday night and the next day, they already made a deal.
"Like almost everyone my age, I had the 'Choose Life' poster on my university dorm-room wall," Minghella said.
"I have wanted to work with Danny ever since, so the opportunity to collaborate on the sequel is truly a dream come true. It perfectly represents the filmmaker-driven movies I am committed to making at TriStar," the TriStar president added.
"Trainspotting" was one of the biggest British movies in the 1990s. Its cult followers all wanted to experience the same adventures and misdaventures of the film's main characters.
Fans were thrilled when they found out that Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewan Bremner, and Johnny Lee Miller will reprise their roles.
"All the four main actors want to come back and do it," the Danny Boyle told Deadline. "Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series," he explained.
During an interview with Daily Record, Robert Carlyle revealed what fans can expect from his psycho character.
"Begbie is a crazy character so it's hard to say if he's changed. I don't know the script well enough for that. He is what he is, this guy, and I don't think people change that much," he said.
"If you look at people over twenty years and see how much they change their hair and look not a lot people do. They kind of tend to be stuck in their ways. I don't know if the moustache is there or if maybe it'll be a bigger moustache," the 54-year-old actor added.
Robert Carlyle tried not to spill out more "Trainspotting 2" spoilers, but he did confirm that they will be shooting in May and June next year so as not to conflict with his schedule for "Once Upon A Time."
