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Trainspotting 2 update from Danny Boyle


by Willow Green |
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Drugs? Check. Porn? Check. Suitably ravaged and burnt out cast? Er, that would have to be a no. Whilst all other aspects of production are shaping up rather nicely, Danny Boyle's only problem for his sequel to Trainspotting has turned out to be the distinct lack of ageing on the part of his star cast. Speaking at the Sundance Film Festival where he was busy promoting UK box-office smash, 28 Days Later, Boyle commented that the original Trainspotting cast are looking far too fresh and youthful to return to Irvine Welsh's world of needle-filled Edinburgh portrayed in his novel "Porno". "None of them look any different," he said. "I need them to look like they've burned themselves out, but they have all been using face creme and Vitamin E lotion." Hardly the behaviour one expects from Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie. The beautiful cast, however, will have some time to work on those hollow faces, improve those bags and brush up their heroin chic as Boyle's next project is not expected to be Porno but Millions, a comedy structured around

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