After two decades away from the big screen, four old cinematic friends are getting back together. Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) have reunited, Danny Boyle is back behind the camera, and “T2: Trainspotting” is on the way.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes, and it seems that will be part of the running theme in the upcoming film that follows up on the zeitgeist-capturing, 1996 original. Here’s the official synopsis:
First there was an opportunity……then there was a betrayal.
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.
They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
“T2: Trainspotting” opens in the UK on January 27, 2017, and will arrive in cinemas stateside on February 3, 2017 in limited release, before going wide on February 10, 2017.
