During the chat, which included the actor, director Danny Boyle, author Irvine Welsh, and producer Andrew Macdonald, McGregor confesses that he was open to dabbling in the same addictive drugs that ...

It still feels like a bit of a heroin-induced fever dream that Trainspotting 2 is really happening 20 years after the original introduced us to Spud, Renton, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Sure enough, ...

Ewan McGregor for the win. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. So let me preface this by saying that I’m only twenty-four. A certain ...

We've been reporting on the potential sequel to Danny Boyle's cult classic Trainspotting for years now. In late 2010, the director was still waiting for the right time to move forward with a follow-up ...

The opening scene of Trainspotting is legendary, but the reality behind it was far tougher than it appears on screen. Ewan ...

The rock band Oasis, Britain's hottest act in the late 1990s and early 2000s, turned down a chance to be on the soundtrack of the movie "Trainspotting" because band members thought it was about ...

"The condemnation of a prominent asshole is absolutely fantastic," says Irvine Welsh. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent When the first Trainspotting was released in the U.S. in 1996, the film came ...

Prior to the first-ever public screening of Steve Jobs, Boyle received a Telluride Medallion for his body of work, clips of which included a certain vivid public toilet-diving scene from Trainspotting ...

“Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh has returned to the scene of the crime with “Dead Man’s Trousers,” his 12th novel. Many crimes, actually, committed by four, not-so-young-anymore Scottish men. They ...

The opening minutes of Danny Boyle's Trainspotting stand as a defining pop salvo in the movies, akin to The Beatles dashing away from screaming fans in A Hard Day's Night or Rosie Perez shadow-boxing ...

More than 20 years after the release of the original film about a band of thieving Scottish junkies, Boyle returns to the same characters. Critic David Edelstein calls the new film "tremendous fun." ...

After 20 years, a major falling out between director Danny Boyle and star Ewan McGregor and a lengthy gestation period, the creative team behind the cult hit aim to reclaim the '90s mojo of the ...