In cinemas January 2017: Danny Boyle's sequel to Trainspotting. Choose #T2.https://t.co/uavkuVB7oY — Film4 (@Film4) May 16, 2016

Filming on the sequel to Danny Boyle’s cult classic Trainspotting is already underway and now Film4, the production company behind the movie, has confirmed the follow up will be released in January 2017.

Yep, Trainspotting 2 – or T2 as it is now being called – will be released in just eight short months. And let’s not forget that January is peak awards season…

Are Film4 and Danny Boyle hoping for some statuettes to take home for T2? In 1996, Trainspotting was nominated for three BAFTAs and an Oscar, ultimately taking home one BAFTA for screenwriting.

Jonny and Ewan in Trainspotting (Picture: Film4)

T2 will be set 20 years after the original film, and is loosely based on Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno, itself a follow up to the original book.




Published in 2002, Porno follows the gang from Trainspotting as they reunite over the backdrop of, you guessed it, the pornography business.

Robert Carlyle, who plays Begbie, and Ewen Bremner’s Spud, have already been spotted on set, with Ewen caught filming in a local shopping centre in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh.

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Edinburgh, I hear you cry?

No fear Trainspotting fans, for Welsh has already quelled your worries that T2 won’t be filming in Glasgow, telling Glasgowist.com that a large chunk of the film will be set mainly Edinburgh, Bathgate – and Glasgow.

‘We’ll probably do quite a bit more [in Edinburgh] than we did in the first movie as we have more money and aren’t operating with the same financial constraints, but it’s still a pain transporting crew around and putting them up in hotels – they work better if they can work from home.

‘So have no fear, Glasgow will be well represented.’

Also returning for the second instalment will be Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, back in their roles as Renton and Sickboy respectively.

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