Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” was based on the provocative novel by Scottish author Irvine Welsh, which chronicled a group of young Scots navigating heroin addiction and paying for it any way they can. A direct sequel, “T2: Trainspotting,” was released in 2017, which Boyle again directed, an adaptation of Welsh’s novel “Porno.”

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With “T2: Trainspotting” looking much better than expected, you’d perhaps hope that author Irvine Welsh wouldn’t want to push his luck. However, none of his novels have landed on the pop-culture sphere with the same impact as “Trainspotting,” and its wild ride of drugs, sex, and life lessons is the kind of stuff that resonates with each generation that catches up with the movie or source material.

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Retitled “The Magnificent Eleven,” the story, which was scribed by Welsh and the father-son team of Pete and John Adams, will substitute the rivalry between cowboys and bandits in the original for a feud between two soccer teams, a local amateur team made up of workers from a nearby Tandoori restaurant and a team of menacing thugs led by a maniac named Blonde Bob.

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Ewan McGregor might be decidedly against a sequel to “Trainspotting” — a legitimate one based off of Irvine Welsh’s follow-up novel, “Porno” — but Robert Carlyle, who played the unhinged sociopath Begbie, like Boyle, is all for it.

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“I didn’t think the book was very good,” he told Moviefone.

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“City Of God” co-director Katia Lund is attached to direct an adaptation of “Dancing Arabs,” the story of an Arab-Israeli whose gains admission into a Hebrew boarding school whilst assuming the identity of a Jewish-Israeli friend. This will be Lund’s follow up to ‘God.’ [Variety]

The author of “Trainspotting,” Irvine Welsh will direct and co-write with father-son writing team Pete and John Adams on “The Magnificent Eleven,” a modernization of the “The Magnificent Seven” about a local amateur soccer team, a Tandoori restaurant and a group of menacing thugs.

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The journo runs into Danny Boyle and starts chatting him up. Doesn’t reveal much to it, but drops this little juicy tidbit of information.

“[Boyle] he has to hook up for a new picture with his longtime colleague, the Danish curmudgeon/director Lars Von Trier.”

Danny Boyle and Lars Von Trier? Doing a movie together? What an odd pairing.

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In the spring of 2007, Boyle talked about the possibility to a film sequel via Irvine Welsh’s (the author of “Trainspotting”) Porno,” which revisited the same characters in his heroin drama nine years later (characters from Welsh’s “Glue” were also present).

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