Director Danny Boyle has confirmed that a Trainspotting sequel is set for release next year to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original film.
Trainspotting, which is based on a novel by Irvine Welsh and starred Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller, was Boyle's first major success following 1994’s Shallow Grave.
Robert Carlyle currently stars in US fantasy show Once Upon a Time, while Jonny Lee Miller leads in Elementary. Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner also featured in the original film, alongside Kevin McKidd and Kelly Macdonald.
"All the four main actors want to come back and do it," Boyle insists. "Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together, which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series."
The script for the sequel, which has been written by long-time Boyle associate John Hodge, is based on Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh's later novel Porno, the follow-up to the book that inspired the 1996 film.
Boyle was discussing a possible Trainspotting sequel as long ago as 2008 and joked that it would finally be doable as time "ravages" the lead actors.
McGregor, who played the key role of Mark Renton, was against the idea for several years and claimed to be "disappointed" by Welsh's Porno.
McGregor and Boyle fell out over the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio as the lead in The Beach in 2000 but their relationship has apparently mended in recent years.
For his part, Carlyle said in 2009 that he would "jump through hoops of fire backwards for Danny Boyle" and would "do Porno tomorrow for nothing".
