Danny Boyle shot to fame with 1996’s Trainspotting. Two decades later, he’s an Oscar winner with a chance to take home more thanks to Steve Jobs. Instead of looking forward though for his next project, he’s planning on going back to the film that made his career.
In an interview with Deadline at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, where Steve Jobs was being screened, Boyle said that he’s hoping Trainspotting 2 will be his next film.
It will be written by John Hodge, who was nominated for an Oscar for adapting Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting novel. Hodge has already written a script that adapted Porno, Welsh’s own sequel novel.
“All the four main actors want to come back and do it,” Boyle said. “Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series.”
There has been talk of a Trainspotting sequel for years, with Ewan McGregor saying in June that he’d like to do it. The film also starred Jonny Lee Miller, who is currently busy with CBS’ Elementary, and Robert Carlyle, who stars on ABC’s Once Upon A Time.
Trainspotting is a kinetic, gritty film about drug addicts in Edinburgh and was released by Miramax in the U.S. It also starred Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald and Ewen Bremner.
Since the film’s release, Boyle has become one of the top directors in the world, winning an Oscar for directing Slumdog Millionaire. His Steve Jobs hits theaters on Oct. 9.
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