Danny Boyle planning Trainspotting sequel for 2016

Rumours about a sequel to Danny Boyle's iconic adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting have been circulating for many a year, but now the Academy Award-winning director has given the first indication that the project may actually become a reality, with Boyle revealing that he hopes to reunite the cast - which includes Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald - for a loose adaptation of Welsh's follow-up book Porno in 2016.

"This has been a long time coming," Boyle told The Playlist, who caught up with the filmmaker at SXSW where he was unveiling footage from his latest film Trance, which stars James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel. "There's always been this long term plan for Trainspotting 2, if John Hodge can produce a decent enough script, I don't think there will be any barriers to Ewan or any of the cast coming back. I think they'll wanna know that the parts are good so they don't feel like they are letting anyone down."

"The reason for doing it again is that people cherish the original, people remember it or have caught up with it if they never saw because they were younger," Boyle continued. "So you want to make sure you don't disappoint people. That will be the only criteria I think. It's very loosely based on Porno. There's a couple of things that are based on the book, but obviously we'd have to have Irvine on board... The ideal time would be Porno in 2016, because it was 1996 when Trainspotting came out. 20 years, it's like wow, where did that go?"

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