A "now or never” summit was held in Edinburgh to decide if a sequel to Trainspotting should go ahead, Danny Boyle has revealed. A “Big Brother House” was hired to have a final go at coming up with a story that would persuade the actors who starred in the original film to revive their roles after two decades. The Oscar-winning director, author Irvine Welsh, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald reunited in the city as the clock ticked towards the 20th anniversary of the first film's release in 1996. But Boyle said the resulting script produced by Hodge convinced him Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner could return, saying: “I thought they'd...
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