But now the sequel T2 Trainspotting is almost upon us, opening March 17 in Toronto theatres, with a few screenings starting Thursday night. Least of all director Danny Boyle and star Ewan McGregor, whose friendship came apart over the casting for Boyle’s 2000 terror-in-paradise film The Beach, in which Leonardo DiCaprio got the lead gig McGregor felt Boyle had promised him. As with any long-delayed family reunion, nobody was expecting the sequel to Trainspotting to be a piece of cake, or even a gob of heroin. Boyle also had to round up other key members of the Trainspotting cast: flash Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), psycho Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and sad Spud (Ewen Bremner). There were multiple attempts at a T2 script until Boyle got one he was satisfied with.

Source: thestar March 10, 2017 12:00 UTC