Festival Predictions

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting

Published on November 29, 2016

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose this sequel as the special screening at Sundance and all will be forgiven for when they programmed these two: Jupiter Ascending and Eddie the Eagle. Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting will hopefully move from Edinburgh to Park City’s Egyptian theatre and essentially become a long lead preview as it launches just shortly after. Lots of cool cats from volume 1 are in the 2nd part: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, James Cosmo, Shirley Henderson and a Mikey Forrester aka Irvine Welsh.

Gist: 20 years after the previous film, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Scotland to make amends with his friends, Daniel “Spud” Murphy (Ewen Bremner) and Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller), whilst avoiding the psychopathic Francis “Franco” Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who has recently been released from prison.

Production Co./Producers: Bernard Bellew, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, Andrew Macdonald.

Prediction: Special screening and a non comp Berlin Film Festival showing before worldwide release.

U.S. Distributor: TriStar Pictures

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).