'Trainspotting 2' Now Under Sony TriStar; Original Cast Members Confirmed For Return!
Sony's TriStar Pictures has won Friday's bid and obtained worldwide rights to the 1996 film's sequel, "Trainspotting 2," with production scheduled to being late spring, according to Variety.
For the past few years, director Danny Boyle has been initiating the reunion.
He will be returning to the film along with the entire main cast, which includes Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller, revealed the Collider.
Boyle also reunited with writer John Hodge to write the script, which is generally based on the film's follow up novel, "Porno" by Irvine Welsh.
The heroin-addicted characters are revisited in Welsh's 2002 novel after the events of Trainspotting.
"It's been 20 years since we met these characters and John Hodge's screenplay brilliantly explores what's happened to them and to us in the intervening years," Boyle said.
Mcgregor, who starred in three of Boyle's films refused to work again with the director initially, after being dismissed for Leonardo di Caprio in "The Beach." The two have since patched things up.
Both the antagonistic "Begbie," played by Carlyle and "Sick Boy" portrayed by Miller have currently conflicting schedules. Carlyle has a recurring role on ABC's "Once Upon A Time" and Miller currently stars on CBS' "Elemental," reported Rolling Stone.
"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," said Carlyle. "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?"
"Trainspotting" was produced for two million dollars but earned a little over $70 million in worlwide gross sales, propelling the careers of McGregor, Carlyle and Boyle.
Danny Boyle has had a long-time partnership with Sony studio chief, Tom Rothman.
Rothman founded Fox Searchlight in 1994 and the partnership included "28 Days Later", "127 Hours", "A Life Less Ordinary" and Academy Award Best Picture "Slumdog Millionaire."
"Trainspotting was a seminal movie for me," said Tristar President Hannah Minghella. "Like almost everyone my age, I had the 'Choose Life' poster on my university dorm room wall. I have wanted to work with Danny ever since, so the opportunity to collaborate on the sequel is truly a dream come true."
Minghella shared she has been a longtime fan of "Trainspotting" and added that the sequel "perfectly represents the filmmaker-driven movies" she is committed to making at TriStar.
To mark the 21st birthday of the original film, Sony plans to release the film in 2017.
