Ewan McGregor Recreates Iconic Opening Chase For Trainspotting 2

This ring any bells? Pulp were in their pomp, Take That had split, the Spice Girls had formed, and Britain was in the grip of the BSE crisis.

Meanwhile, Ewan McGregor was legging it down an Edinburgh high street, scattering shoplifted goods to the four winds, and talking about ‘choosing life’ to the strains of Iggy Pop.

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Here we see his older, but arguably not much wiser Mark Renton and Spud (Ewen Bremner) recreating the scene, once again in Edinburgh.

They’re currently in the middle of filming the long-awaited sequel to 'Trainspotting’ with Danny Boyle, 20 years after the first movie, based on the equally iconic book by Irvine Welsh.

This second instalment is based on Welsh’s 2002 follow-up 'Porno’, and finds the first novel’s protagonists at a different, but still chaotic time in their lives.

Rather than drugs, the backdrop is that of the grubby world of the pornography business.

The new movie finds the two Ewans reunited with Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy and Robert Carlyle as the fearsome Francis Begbie, recently released from prison.

Other than pictures, there’s not much else leaking from the set, and scant comment from Boyle, who appears to be thoroughly immersed in the movie.

But prior to filming, McGregor confirmed the quality of the material.

“Ten years ago, I didn’t want to do it; I wasn’t ready to do it. Also, there was no script,” he told Collider.

But then a script emerged from John Hodge, who had adapted the first movie, a script which McGregor described as 'really, really, really good’.

“I think, if that had not happened, none of us would be into it. I think we’re all sort of somewhat protective of what Trainspotting means to people, and what it means to us,” he added.

“None of us want to make a poor sequel to it. So had we not been presented with the most extraordinary script, which we were, I think we wouldn’t be making the sequel. But because we were, we are.”

'Trainspotting 2’ is due out on January 27, 2017.

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