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EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed Scottish writer Jenni Fagan has struck a two-project development deal with UK drama indie Buccaneer Scotland, which is also producing Fagan’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s The Blade Artist starring Robert Carlyle. Buccaneer Scotland, a division of ITV’s Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, has taken…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Carlyle is to reprise his role as the notorious Francis Begbie in a TV version of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting sequel The Blade Artist. More than 25 years on from his star turn in the Danny Boyle film, Carlyle will exec produce and feature as a reformed Begbie in the six-parter, which is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Film4 is partnering with film distributor Park Circus on a campaign to entice Brits back to the cinema. Under the deal, the duo will offer UK cinemas a season of six classic features from the Film4 library, including Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast. The films will initially…

The reunion of Ewan McGregor with his one-time regular collaborator, director Danny Boyle, was confirmed once more this weekend in London, as McGregor hosted a private screening of his directorial debut American Pastoral, based on the Philip Roth novel, at the tony Bulgari Hotel. Boyle then chaired a spirited Q&A for…

There isn't a challenge Danny Boyle hasn’t liked, whether it's capturing the crazed psychedelic heroin-culture of Edinburgh in Trainspotting or the obstacles of an 18-year-old in the Mumbai streets of Slumdog Millionaire—the themes and topics the director tackles are never the same thing twice. After David Fincher…

Sony’s TriStar Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Danny Boyle's long-discussed sequel to Trainspotting. Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and all the principal cast of the 1996 Miramax film based on Irvine Welsh’s novel — Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle — will be back. Shooting…

Updated with script information: "All the four main actors want to come back and do it,” the director tells Deadline’s Pete Hammond, who caught up with Boyle at the Telluride after-party for the “work-in-progress” screening of Steve Jobs with Michael Fassbender in the title role. “Now it is only a matter of getting…