Two long-ass decades after the original Trainspotting launched multiple careers and bagged an Academy Award nomination, director Danny Boyle is bringing the beloved crew back together for a proper sequel. The first full trailer for T2 Trainspotting dropped Thursday, featuring our first detailed look at how life has turned out for Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
"Choose life," McGregor's Renton says in the two-minute glimpse's opening moments, revisiting a class tagline from the OG 1996 film. "Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and hope that someone, somewhere, cares. Choose looking up old flames, wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose your future. Choose reality TV, slut-shaming, revenge porn."
As Renton returns to the only spot he can truly call his home, his old friends Spud and company are waiting for him. However, a few other former acquaintances also want a piece of the older Renton: i.e. our dear BFFs sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction, and that asshole known as mortal danger.
Speaking toIndieWire last October on why the time is right to return to Trainspotting, Boyle said one of the most interesting aspects of waiting a couple decades is exploring the impact of time on these revered characters. "You saw the fascination that these characters have created in people," Boyle said. "And then it's the fact that when we did it the first time, the actors and the characters were in their mid-twenties, and in that time of life, you can get away with almost anything if you're lucky. And then that changes. And it's changed in the audience as well, who were maybe that age when they watched it."
T2 Trainspotting hits theaters in the U.S. starting Feb. 3.
