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It has been 20 years since the release of Trainspotting and it will be 21 years until we get T2. We finally have a trailer for the Danny Boyle directed film, but it leaves A LOT to the imagination, in fact it basically tells us nada about the new film.

Spud, Renton, Sick Boy, and Begbie are shown briefly in a scene reminiscent of the OG film, standing like the bad boys they are on a platform as a train wizzes past. It almost doesn’t need to be said but Iggy Pop’s classic track ‘Lust for Life’ provides the background for this trailer.

T2, based on the novel Porno, is set 20 years after the original, and was originally intended for a 2016 release but will now be out in January 2017. It unsurprisingly seems as if the makers are relying upon the original Trainspotting’s popularity to fuel the hype around T2, so expect there to be a torturous drip-feed of similarly ambiguous teasers to drop over the next six months.

Check out the trailer in the gallery above, but no promises that it will blow your mind.

  • Words: Ella McNicol

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