[Closed] Trainspotting 2...

Really liked trainspotting the book and thought the film was pretty good too. I thought the sequel book was very good with some really good characters like Juice Terry, but I guess the film will concentrate on much of the story between Renton, Sick boy and Begbie.
Really looking forward to it.

A real timeless, fantastic film. Saw it at the cinema recently too. It'd lost none of its energy.

Cant wait for part deux 8)

Another sequel. I haven't read the book but I imagine it'll have to be quite a bit different from the first film or it'll suffer negatively by comparison. I can't imagine they'll easily recapture the energy.

Begbie's just gonna kill renton. How will they resolve the ending?

If you like trainspotting, then read the rest of Irvine Welshes books. They're not really a series, but the same characters pop up here and there.
'Porno' is a great read, but I can't see it ever going to film with those actors. 'Filth' is a good book, but I don't think the film was able to do it justice.

It's also with reading skagboys, its the prequil to trainspotting & porno.

Especially enjoyable for me as its set where I grew up so all the locations are just round the corner. That might not be a claim to fame come to think about it.

Very glad to hear this, by TS2 I assume you mean Porno? Should be good. Skagboys is the one I've read since living In Edinburgh and it really brings it alive (the 650b of literature?) knowing the venues in the book.

I was thinking just the other day,though - why is trainspotting called trainspotting?

The junkies used to hang out in the old, disused train station at the foot of the walk (now tesco / leith water world/soft play). Someone asked the boys if they were there for some trainspotting. Iirc.

Someone asked the boys if they were there for some trainspotting

It was Begbie's alcoholic father, near the end of the book. The description of him sort of explained Begbie.

good stuff, much better than the saccharine stuff that gets pedaled usually,

only just managed to watch Filth a couple of nights ago, fantastic film

I think Glue is his finest moment,but the descent of Begbie to mad bast of even more epic proportions in Porno is pretty well written.As a character you couldn't have seen him get any worse than trainspotting,yet he so does...

Agree about Glue. after reading that I just wanted to take a bunch of pals to Munich and get leathered for a few days. One day...

Edit: thanks for the info. Years since I read the book,must have passed me by that bit.

hora - Member
A real timeless, disturbing film. Saw it at the cinema when it first came out and was almost sick.. It had lots of drug fulled energy, sorrowful life existence and no escape from the drudgery of drug fulled habit.
I won't be going to see the new version

I'll wait for you lot to rave about how good it was, in the calm of a Middle England existence

FIFM
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Those opening few beats of Lust for Life just set the whole tone for me - great film and very much of its time (in a good way).

gobuchul - Member

It was Begbie's alcoholic father, near the end of the book. The description of him sort of explained Begbie.

Aye- but they cut it out of the film, because leith central had been demolished by then. Which made it all a bit weird 😆

It was on the telly last night, I just heard Heaven 17 blasting out Temptation and thought, Renton's in...

Trainspotting (alongside Lock Stock) was the film of my universtiy years, loved it.

Read an article on TP2 yesterday. Looks like all the previous cast signed up. The intention was that if there was to be another film, then there would need to be time for the cast to age suitably before reuniting them. Given the relative slow aging process for a successful actor vs a junkie this has been some time gap.

gobuchul - Member

Someone asked the boys if they were there for some trainspotting

It was Begbie's alcoholic father, near the end of the book. The description of him sort of explained Begbie.

1. That there is a scene in the book where Renton and a n other were using a train platform as a toilet, and saw a person who turned out to be Begbie's estranged father. (not in the film - and this is from memory so my version of the scene may be a little off)

2. That taking heroin is like trainspotting - for those who do it, it makes perfect sense, for those that don't, they do not see the point.

paladin - Member
If you like trainspotting, then read the rest of Irvine Welshes books.

Excellent.. looks like Danny Boyle directing too. Then they can make a prequel based on Skagboys. 🙂

the big question is... will Kelly Macdonald be in it?
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Renton: Excuse me, excuse me. I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. And I was thinking to myself, now this girl's special.
Diane: Thanks.
Renton: What's your name?
Diane: Diane.
Renton: And where are you going, Diane?
Diane: I'm going home.
Renton: Well, where's that?
Diane: It's where I live.
Renton: Great.
Diane: What?
Renton: Well, I'll come back with you if you like, but like, I'm not promising anything, you know.
Diane: Do you find that this approach usually works? Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. In fact, you don't normally approach girls - am I right? The truth is that you're a quiet sensitive type but, if I'm prepared to take a chance, I might just get to know the inner you: witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal. Taxi! A little bit crazy, a little bit bad. But hey - don't us girls just love that?
Renton: Eh?
Diane: Well, what's wrong boy - cat got your tongue?

Taxi driver: you getting in or not pal?

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you have to admit the writing is superb.

"I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978!"

Excellent, can't wait and Porno is a damn good book.

Thinking it through, the original cast would be up for it as there's not much in the way of flesh needed from them, it's mostly the newcomers.

t appears it's coming, Interesting to see Obi Wan and Sherlock going back to being proper Scottish

I feel obliged to point out that Jonny Lee Miller isn't even remotely Scottish.

I can understand why you might think so though, as his is Scottish accent in Trainspotting is the best attempt by any actor, in any film, ever. Fact.

He does, however, appear to know a great deal about Sean Connery..... 😆

He was pretty good as Obree too...

I meant playing proper scottish... they all seem to have gone a long way from that point
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Miller did a decent accent in Complicity too.

seosamh77 - Member
No thanks, I've read trainspotting and the acid house short stories, which was more than enough of welshes depraved fantasies for me!

You can never have enough depraved fantasies! 😉

I'm sure I read somewhere, though, that trainspotting2 won't be following any of the books, its a made-up continuation of trainspotting......

That'll be why it's called Trainspotting 2 then?

Some of the nuances from TS still hang about in every day conversation with pals as it was likewise a film of Uni years.

"ah'm sorry boys ah do not have 2 grand"

"aye ye fockin dae"

Superb.

As a film, I thought the ending of Trainspotting was near as damn it perfect.

The idea of reintroducing Rentboy, having clearly failed to start a new better life doesn't sit so well with me. TS2 would have to buck the sequel trend and be flippin marvelous if i'm to buy into it.

From memory Diane doesn't appear in Porno except for maybe a brief scene.

If it's a new story then even better, Porno was good but it just felt like everyone had just been turned up to eleven (Begbie, Sick Boy and Sec mainly)

Diane turns up as the house mate of the lead girl, not Lauren, the other one, the gymnast who works in the massage parlour. Should be a reasonable role.

Apparently Welsh and Boyle are sitting down and really working hard on bringing a story that will live up to the original as they know it could quite easily all go pear shaped.

It would be interesting to watch the original film again now. I enjoyed it, but was a bit disappointed by it at the time, because it didn't capture the intensity and grittiness of the book for me. In the book, the scene in the pub toilet is an excruciating, extended description of someone up to their elbows in s**t because they are so desperate for a fix. In the film that becomes a fantasy underwater swimming sequence.

Can TS2 live up to this?

It'll be sh!t I guarantee it. Trainspotting was wholly of it's time and it's a fools errand to try to recapture that.

He does, however, appear to know a great deal about Sean Connery..

That's hardly a substitute.