Sony TriStar Picks Up ‘Trainspotting 2’ For 2017 Release, Danny Boyle Says Title Might Be ‘T2’

Well, it won’t make it in theaters in time for its twentieth anniversary, but the long awaited sequel to “Trainspotting” is coming, and the picture has found a studio home.

Screen Daily reports that Sony TriStar have snapped up the worldwide rights to the untitled sequel. Thus far, details are being kept under wraps about what the movie will be about, but Danny Boyle has shared the followup won’t simply be an adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s “Porno,” as many expected.

“It’s not very directly from the book anymore, and it certainly won’t be called ‘Porno.’ It will be called 'T2' if we can get the rights [alluding to James Cameron’s 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'],” he told The Daily Beast in September.

A few days later, the director told Rolling Stone, "People think the first film was about drugs; it's not. It's about friendship. John Hodge [the film's screenwriter], has suggested a very peculiar alternate title that has to do with that idea. I can't tell you what it...