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T2 Trainspotting
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2017 film directed by Danny Boyle
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T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 British film directed by Danny Boyle, who also served as a producer alongside Christian Colson and Andrew Macdonald. The screenplay was written by John Hodge, with Anthony Dod Mantle as director of photography and Jon Harris as film editor. The cast includes Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle. The film follows Mark Renton, who returns to Scotland after twenty years abroad to reunite with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
Produced by Miramax and TriStar Pictures, the film was distributed by TriStar Pictures and Netflix. It was filmed in Edinburgh, which also serves as a narrative location alongside Amsterdam. The movie is a sequel to Trainspotting and is based on the works Porno and Trainspotting. With a runtime of 117 minutes, it is classified as a black comedy, crime, comedy drama, and drama film. The production had a budget of 18,000,000 and generated revenue of 41,681,746.
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Film · TMDB
6.9After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Cast
- Ewan McGregor as Renton
- Jonny Lee Miller as Simon
- Ewen Bremner as Spud
- Robert Carlyle as Begbie / Begbie's Father
- Anjela Nedyalkova as Veronika
- Shirley Henderson as Gail
Themes
- prison
- friendship
- based on novel or book
- fight
- scotland
- blackmail
- heroin
- drug addiction
- junkie
- cocaine
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Danny Boyle
- Screenplay by
- John Hodge
- Based on
- Trainspotting , Porno , by Irvine Welsh
- Produced by
- Bernard Bellew Danny Boyle Christian Colson Andrew Macdonald
- Starring
- Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle Kelly MacDonald
- Cinematography
- Anthony Dod Mantle
- Edited by
- Jon Harris
- Music by
- Rick Smith
- Production companies
- TriStar Pictures Film4 Creative Scotland Cloud Eight Films DNA Films Decibel Films
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release dates
- 22 January 2017 ( 2017-01-22 ) ( Edinburgh ) 27 January 2017 ( 2017-01-27 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 117 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $18 million
- Box office
- $42.1 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Follows
- Trainspotting
- Based on
- Trainspotting
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Screenwriter
- John Hodge
- Production company
- TriStar Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Anthony Dod Mantle
- Narrative location
- Amsterdam
- Filming location
- Edinburgh
- Duration
- 117
- FilmAffinity ID
- 464694
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.t2trainspottingmovie.com
- Image
- T2 Trainspotting Logo.png
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- publication date
- 2017-03-02
- film editor
- Jon Harris
- distributed by
- Netflix
- title
- T2 Trainspotting
- Commons category
- T2 Trainspotting
- production designer
- Mark Tildesley
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 67/100
- language of work or name
- English language
- capital cost
- 18000000
- box office
- 42100000
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Encyclopedic overview
T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge. Set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland, it is based on characters created by Irvine Welsh in his 1993 novel Trainspotting and its 2002 follow-up Porno. A sequel to Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting, T2 stars the original ensemble cast, including leads Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle, with Shirley Henderson, James Cosmo, and Kelly Macdonald. The film features a new character, Veronika, played by Anjela Nedyalkova, and includes clips, music, and archive sound from the first film.
T2 Trainspotting was released in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2017, and worldwide throughout February and March 2017 by TriStar Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing $42.1 million against a production budget of $18 million.
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