MOVIES: “ELEMENTARY’S” JONNY LEE MILLER RETURNS TO “TRAINSPOTTING” SEQUEL

Jonny Lee Miller first gained international attention in 1996 with his performance as the drug-addicted punk Simon aka Sick Boy in Trainspotting.  Now, Lee Miller comes full circle as he reprises the iconic role in Columbia Pictures' T2: Trainspotting, the long-overdue sequel.

T2 Trainspotting is now playing exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Glorietta 4 and Trinoma).

Joining Lee Miller are his original castmates, Ewan MacGregor as Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud and Robert Carlyle as Begbie.

In the original film, the four life-long friends/associates/bitter enemies had travelled to London to sell a bag of fortuitously obtained heroin.  While the rest are sleeping, Renton sneaks out with the entire proceeds: £16,000 in cash. He walks away. He will not look back.  Now, twenty years have gone by.  Much has changed but just as much remains the same.  Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home.  They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie.

Movie News: “T2: TRAINSPOTTING” TEASER TRAILER ANNOUNCES SEQUEL

The teaser trailer for Columbia Pitures' “T2: Trainspotting,” the sequel to director Danny Boyle's 1996 masterpiece 2 has landed online and may be viewed at https://youtu.be/HBI9TephnYI.

            Danny Boyle reunites with screenwriter John Hodge and the original cast – Ewan McGregor as Renton, Ewan Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, and Robert Carlyle as Begbie – for a story based on author Irvine Welsh’s follow-up novel “Porno.”  The sequel picks up 20 years after the events of the first film with the main characters crossing paths yet again.

            The director is also reuniting with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, who won an Oscar for his work on Boyle's “Slumdog Millionaire.”

            Based on the novel of the same name by Welsh, Hodge's screenplay for the original “Trainspotting” received an Academy Award nomination. The story, set in the late ’80s, follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh.  The film launched the careers of McGregor, Carlyle and Boyle.

Opening across the Philippines in February 2017, “T2: Trainspotting” is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.