Ewan McGregor Turns Down Trainspotting Sequel

Ewan McGregor will not appear in the sequel to ‘Trainspotting’. The ‘Star Wars’ star refuses to reprise his iconic role as Renton in follow-up ‘Porno’ because he thinks the book it is based on will make for a “poor” film.

He said: “I really don’t think I will do ‘Porno’ because I didn’t like the book as much. I thought the author, Irvine Welsh, kind of wrote a sequel to the film in a way, instead of writing a sequel to his novel. A lot of the other characters in ‘Trainspotting’ had disappeared and it seemed to be mainly about the characters in the film. I felt that it was a bit repetitive. I’ve always said that I loved ‘Trainspotting’ so much that it would be a terrible thing to damage it by making a poor sequel.”

British hit ‘Trainspotting’ offered a darkly comic take on the world of heroin addiction, and was a huge hit with both audiences and critics when it was released in 1996. ‘Trainspotting’ director Danny Boyle has already offered his services again for ‘Porno’, while Robert Carlyle wants to reprise his role as the psychopathic Begbie. ‘Porno’ is set nine years after ‘Trainspotting’, and sees the main characters reunited this time in the world of pornography.

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