Trainspotting [DVD] [1996]

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Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting: A Reader's Guide, by Robert A. Morace. Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 0-8264-5237-X. On 6 May 2014, during a BBC Radio interview with Richard Bacon, Welsh confirmed that he had spent a week with Boyle, Andrew Macdonald and the creative team behind Trainspotting to discuss the sequel. Welsh stated that the meeting was to "explore the story and script ideas. We're not interested in doing something that will trash the legacy of Trainspotting. ... We want to do something that's very fresh and contemporary." [77] Welsh did not however confirm any kind of timeline for the film, unlike Boyle's comments about wanting the film to come out in 2016.

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Rosenbaum, Jonathan (26 July 1996). "Too High to Die". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008 . Retrieved 16 April 2009. Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening Link to Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening a b " Trainspotting". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 22 October 2008 . Retrieved 10 September 2009. Kreps, Daniel (7 September 2015). "Danny Boyle Reveals Next Film Is 'Trainspotting 2' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 5 December 2015.Danny Boyle nervous about Trainspotting sequel". BBC Newsbeat. 18 October 2015. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015 . Retrieved 5 December 2015. Jolly, Mark (August 1996). " Trainspottings Engine That Could". Interview. p.107. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016 . Retrieved 11 October 2009. Work also begins on the film's poster, with a special photo shoot. Just hours after the final take, McGregor, Carlyle, Bremner, Miller and Kelly MacDonald are hauled into a Bayswater studio for a day's photography. The pictures are snapped by Lorenzo Agius, a photographer who has made numerous contributions to Empire in the past. August/September 1995 T2 Trainspotting (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020 . Retrieved 29 April 2021. Trainspotting is the story of a humor, violence, goofiness, abuse, friendship and sadness in heroin-addicted Scotland.

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Hodge is still hard at work and the rights are still problematic, even more so when Channel 4, which is financing the film (the first time it has covered the whole cost of a project) refuses to put up a penny until the mess is sorted. "I'm confident we'll be able to bully our way into it," says MacDonald, "because Channel 4 like the script, which is a powerful asset. And we have the author on our side. When Irvine heard about our plans, he wrote us a brilliant letter saying we were the greatest Scotsmen since Kenny Dalglish and Alex Ferguson." (Isn't Danny Boyle from Manchester? - Ed.) We've tried to keep as much of the original dialogue as possible and just add effects," explains MacDonald, "so that the dialogue is very raw and stylised." Still, certain aspects do need to be improved. Why Trainspotting is the greatest film of all time". Ford On Film. 14 March 2013. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017 . Retrieved 17 February 2017. Trainspotting courted its fair share of controversy upon its release in 1996, with US presidential candidate Bob Dole accusing it of "moral depravity" and "glorifying drug use" - before having to admit, like so many moralisers before him, that he hadn't actually seen the film. In the two decades since, it has become something of an integral part of British cinema, even being voted the best British film ever in a 2012 poll. Twenty-two years on, it remains one of Danny Boyle's very best efforts and second only to Requiem for a Dream in the pantheon of drug films.Producer Andrew Macdonald read Irvine Welsh's book on a plane in December 1993, and felt that it could be made into a film. [12] He turned it on to director Danny Boyle and writer John Hodge in February 1994. [13] [14] Boyle was excited by its potential to be the "most energetic film you've ever seen – about something that ultimately ends up in purgatory or worse". [13] Hodge read it and made it his goal to "produce a screenplay which would seem to have a beginning, a middle and an end, would last 90 minutes and would convey at least some of the spirit and the content of the book". [14] Boyle convinced Welsh to let them option the rights to his book by writing him a letter stating that Hodge and Macdonald were "the two most important Scotsmen since Kenny Dalglish and Alex Ferguson". [12] Welsh remembered that originally the people wanting to option his book "wanted to make a po-faced piece of social realism like Christiane F or The Basketball Diaries". [12] He was impressed that Boyle, Hodge and Macdonald wanted everyone to see the film and "not just the arthouse audience". [12] In October 1994, Hodge, Boyle and Macdonald spent a lot of time discussing which chapters of the book would and would not translate into film. Hodge finished the first draft by December. [12] Macdonald secured financing from Channel 4, a British television station known for funding independent films. [13] Casting [ edit ] But, when you're transferring something to the screen you have to go for the visual rather than the literal. We decided to make up a few scenes, but I can justify them all by the fact that they're all taken in some way from the novel. For example, there's a shoplifting scene that doesn't actually happen in the book. But there are loads of references to it and it's a very visual thing, so it seemed right. Then again, there are lots of scenes you can really go for, like the one with the opium suppositories, or the Sunday morning breakfast sequence."