Why did you feel that Trainspotting fit into that same category and deserved a book like this? Inside Hook: You’ve now written oral histories on Raging Bull and The Deer Hunter, and you’re working on one about Taxi Driver those seem like obvious choices in many ways. Sure, Nirvana’s Nevermind just got the super deluxe 30th anniversary box set treatment, and Oasis’s stand before a quarter of a million people in Knebworth Park just got its own nostalgic documentary, but Trainspotting? Still, not only did the film make Welsh a worldwide household name, it made Danny Boyle a marquee-name director and its cast global superstars.īelow, author Jay Glennie - whose gorgeous, coffee table oral history of the making of the film includes memories of the time from everyone from Welsh and Boyle to Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Robert Carlyle, and even the crew - tells InsideHook why Trainspotting is as significant as Raging Bull, how McGregor almost wasn’t Renton and how the soundtrack elevated the brief, 90-minute film to another level. For just about anyone born in the 1970s, it’s hard to wrap your mind around the idea that a film like Trainspotting - the heist and heroin film from 1996 that adapted Irvine Welsh’s idiosyncratic novel into a box office sensation - is 25 years old.
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