Cultfilm Trainspotting receives sequel series

Robert Carlyle To Reprise Role Of Francis Begbie In ‘Trainspotting’ TV Sequel ‘The Blade Artist’ More than 25 years on from his star turn in the Danny Boyle film, Carlyle (Once Upon a Time, photo) will exec produce and feature as a reformed Begbie in the six-parter, which is being developed by Buccaneer Media.

The Blade Artist novel was published in 2016 and is set in LA and Edinburgh 20 years after the events of Trainspotting, the 1993 book that was adapted into a cult film by Danny Boyle three years later.



Now known as Jim Francis, Begbie is a reformed character who believes he has found the perfect life. But a return to Scotland for the funeral of a murdered son he hardly knows confronts him with a past he can barely recall and he soon discovers you can take the boy out of Edinburgh, but you can’t take Edinburgh out of the boy.