Robert Carlyle is the champion of unexpected sequels. First was “T2 Trainspotting” in 2017, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to the 1996 British classic. And now there’s “The Full Monty,” an eight-episode series sequel that picks up 25 years later with the original film’s cast. The first trailer shows how the city of Sheffield has fared — and why things may not have gotten any easier for our ragtag group of working-class protagonists.

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They headed north to the wilderness in the 1970s, when Michelle (Sarah Gadon) was 15 and pregnant with Cea, “because if there was one thing Papa Dick was sure of, it was that the wilderness would solve all their problems.” They ended up in the Kootenay Plains, up in Alberta, where “Papa Dick” (Robert Carlyle) headed up a commune that sounds an awful lot like a cult.

Cea Sunrise Person first told her story in her 2014 memoir, “North of Normal,” which has been adapted into a film of the same name by director Carly Stone and screenwriter Alexandra Weir.

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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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H.G. Wells‘ seminal tale “The War of The Worlds”— one of the first alien invasion stories in literature —has been adapted dozens and dozens of times over the years, perhaps most famously when Orson Welles caused panic in the U.S. with his all-too-real radio adaptation in 1938. Steven Spielberg’s 2005 “War Of The Worlds” with Tom Cruise probably earns the second spot in pop culture for impact and influence.

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The distance between the person you’ve become and the youth you once were can be a gap that’s narrowed by the people you surround yourself with. Ewan McGregor‘s Renton will probably feel a time warp in “T2 Trainspotting,” which finds him returning home 20 years after ghosting on his friends, betraying them in the process.

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In the U.S, Danny Boyle’s 1996 film “Trainspotting” was an arthouse hit and perhaps even a cult classic, but in the U.K. it was a phenomenon. Adapted from Irvine Welsh’s best-selling novel, it was a generation-defining bit of pop culture, a firecracker of a film which felt like the start of a new New Wave of British filmmaking, with one of the most beloved and best-selling soundtracks ever, and even a marketing campaign which stood alongside Tony Blair, Liam Gallagher and Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress as the key icons of so-called Cool Britannia.

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It’s been 20 years since “Trainspotting” put director Danny Boyle and the cast on the map, sold a boatload of soundtracks, and captured the energetic despair of a generation. Revisiting that same ground two decades on in “T2 Trainspotting” is a challenge, but it really sounds they got it right as the script even left Begbie in tears.

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“I was crying,” Robert Carlyle told Empire. 

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In case you’re wondering how “Trainspotting” holds up twenty years later, having watched it again on the big screen this week, I can tell you that Danny Boyle‘s picture is just as electric now as it was then. His tale of junkies, dreams, friendship, and coming-of-age is still quite the shot in the arm, disarmingly funny, and dramatically dark. Seeing it again was a reminder of just how high a bar “T2: Trainspotting” has to clear.

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After two decades away from the big screen, four old cinematic friends are getting back together. Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) have reunited, Danny Boyle is back behind the camera, and “T2: Trainspotting” is on the way.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes, and it seems that will be part of the running theme in the upcoming film that follows up on the zeitgeist-capturing, 1996 original.

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A lot can happen in 20 years. Marriage, families, divorce, death, addiction, recovery, success, failure, birth….you get the idea. And for Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle), their wild lives could’ve gone in any direction after “Trainspotting.” Well, we’re about to find out what’s happened to them all as the first trailer for Danny Boyle‘s “T2: Trainspotting” (yeah, I still don’t know about that title either) has landed.

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In 1996, Danny Boyle‘s “Trainspotting” asked a generation — via the antics of junkie lowlives — to take a look at their future:

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home.

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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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