14 DAY TRIAL // While promoting his latest film, “127 Hours” starring James Franco, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle has dropped a bomb on “Trainspotting” fans: a sequel is not out of the question just yet. As a matter of fact, it will probably happen.
Much has been said about a possible follow-up to the 1996 classic film, which was made on a script based Irvine Welsh’s best-selling novel of the same name but, until now, nothing has come of those rumors.
However, Boyle says fans shouldn’t lose all hope just yet, even if so many years have passed since it came out. A sequel to the novel already exists, and it might be turned into a movie as well.
Moreover, the director teased, he may even get the old cast back, which included Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle, to reprise the roles in the film that shaped British cinema, Monsters And Critics says.
“It will happen, I think. I mean, we’ll approach them all again about it, but it will depend on what place they’re all at,” Boyle said in the recent interview cited by M&C.
“'We have a very strong idea that it would be a wonderful thing to reapproach, to do again, when they have aged clearly into a mid-life kind of crisis, basically. They’re not quite there yet, I don’t think,” the director added.
Oddly enough, if the old cast is getting back together, no one seems to have told Ewan McGregor about it because, back in May last year, he was saying he was positive he wouldn’t do a “Trainspotting” sequel even if he were offered the chance.
As he put it at the time, making a follow-up to a film that turned out to be not only extremely popular with audiences but also very well-received by critics, and having it fare worse would mean tarnishing the memory of the original film.
He didn’t want to be a part of that, he said, as we also informed you at the time.
“I think just the idea of getting the cast together again 10 to 15 years later isn’t good enough, you need more than that. I wouldn’t want to damage Trainspotting’s reputation, because it was an amazing film and a very important film of its time, a very important film for me and … a very important film for British cinema,” McGregor said.
“I wouldn’t want to leave people remembering a poor sequel rather than leaving its reputation where it sits at the moment, which is kind of a phenomenal film,” the actor explained.