Trainspotting 2 trailer sees Ewan McGregor’s Renton and friends reunite after 20 years and take some mind-altering substances

The gang are back for the long-awaited sequel to Danny Boyle's 1996 classic 
Jennifer Ruby4 November 2016
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The first trailer for the eagerly-awaited Trainspotting sequel sees Renton reunite with his friends after 20 years.

Released on Thursday morning, the new video gives a first look at Danny Boyle’s T2, which features original cast including Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner.

The trailer opens with a twist on Renton’s iconic ‘choose life’ speech, updated to include ‘Instagram’, ‘Facebook’ and ‘zero-hour contracts’.

Loosely-based on Irvine Welsh’s Porno, the film sees the old gang reunite two decades after the drug-fuelled antics of the 1996 classic.

Original: The actors adopt the same pose in the 1996 film

Despite claiming to be off the drugs, the trailer shows the characters indulging in some mind-altering substances and getting in trouble with the law.

Kelly Macdonald, who played a schoolgirl in the first film, is also back for the sequel and appears to be a successful businesswoman now.

The cast and crew officially began shooting back in May after confirming to fans that they were finally making a new film.

Welsh recently admitted that much of his book had to be altered to fit in with the time frame.

“We've had to evolve past that, because the actors would have been ten years older when Porno came out, and now they're 20 years older. It has to take into account that reality,” he said.

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McGregor recently said of the screenplay: “It's such an amazing script, penned by John Hodge who wrote the original Trainspotting script, so there's a real excitement about it.”

Carlyle said: “Danny always said he wants us all to be 20 years older because the book [Trainspotting sequel, Porno] is set 20 years later.

“One of the difficulties of just adapting Porno is that so much of it is to do with internet porn, which has moved on a lot since the book was written – or so I understand – so it would require a hefty rewrite.”

The film is slated for release on January 27, 2017.

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