Trainspotting | 1996 | Final | US One Sheet
Trainspotting is a 1996 film directed by Danny Boyle. It was produced by Andrew Macdonald with the screenplay being written by John Hodge. The film is based on the 1993 novel, Trainspotting, written by Scottish author Irvine Welsh. It stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly MacDonald in her first acting role. After the producer had read the novel on a flight in December 1993 he felt that he could adapt the novel into a film. Danny Boyle was excited by the film and described it as “the most energetic film you've ever seen – about something that ultimately ends up in purgatory or worse”. He convinced the author to let him have the film rights after writing him a letter saying that John Hodge and Andrew Macdonald were "the two most import...