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Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993.It takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either Scots, Scottish English or British English, revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh, who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are effectively addictions.
The film follows much of the plot laid out by the novel, with some changes. In the film, Mark Renton is a 26-year-old, unemployed man who lives with his parents in Edinburgh, engaging in heroin use with Sick Boy ( Jonny Lee Miller ), Spud ( Ewen Bremner ) and their dealer Swanney "Mother Superior" ( Peter Mullan ).
Trainspotting was the highest-grossing British film of 1996, and at the time it was the fourth highest grossing British film in history. [56] The film grossed £12 million in the UK and $72 million internationally. [57] Based on a cost-to-return ratio, Trainspotting was the most profitable film of the year. [58]
Trainspotting, a 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh Trainspotting, a 1996 film based on the novel Trainspotting, two soundtrack albums from the film; T2 Trainspotting, a 2017 sequel to the 1996 film "Trainspotting", a song by Primal Scream from their 1997 album Vanishing Point; Trainspotting, a video game for the Comx-35 home computer
Glue (2001) was a return to the locations, themes and episodic form of Trainspotting, telling the stories of four characters spanning several decades in their lives and the bonds that held them together. Having revisited some of them in passing in Glue, Welsh brought most of the Trainspotting characters back for a sequel, Porno, in 2002. In ...
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Porno (later republished as T2 Trainspotting after the 2017 film adaptation) is a novel published in 2002 by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, the sequel to Trainspotting.The book describes the characters of Trainspotting ten years after the events of the earlier book, as their paths cross again, this time with the pornography business as the backdrop rather than heroin use (although numerous ...
T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 British 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 .