Trainspotting's Ewen Bremner – AKA Spud – Snapped On Set Of Danny Boyle Sequel

What a difference 20 years makes.

As filming continues on the ‘Trainspotting’ sequel, Ewen Bremner was spotted on the movie’s set yesterday, reprising his role as Daniel 'Spud’ Murphy.

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Dressed in an ill-fitting suit, a shirt from 1973 and a pair of tatty Dunlop Green Flash, Bremner took direction from Danny Boyle on the set, in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh.

Spud was the most hapless of Renton’s (Ewan McGregor) drug addled chums with a weakness for amphetamines and fouling the bed.

In one of the more memorable scenes from Danny Boyle’s 1996 cult classic, Spud covered his girlfriend and her parents in excrement following an unfortunate incident after a night’s clubbing.

The movie is being based on Irvine Welsh’s follow up novel 'Porno’, published in 2002, which finds Spud trying to kick his persistent drug habit.

It also finds Renton owning a nightclub in Amsterdam and Begbie (played by Robert Carlyle) being released from a spell in prison, while Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) owns a pub.

The original movie remains one of Boyle’s best-loved works, and is ranked number 10 in the BFI’s top 100 best British films of all time list.

On its tiny budget of £1.5 million, it made £48 million and made stars of Boyle and his cast, the director having made a deep impression with his debut 'Shallow Grave’ in 1994.

In an interview with Collider, Ewan McGregor said: “None of us want to make a poor sequel to it. So had we not been presented with the most extraordinary script, which we were, I think we wouldn’t be making the sequel. But because we were, we are.”

The movie is aiming for release later this year.

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