Trainspotting 2 shock photos: McGregor’s Rent Boy looks NOTHING like before
EWAN MCGREGOR and Jonny Lee Miller have been spotted on Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting 2 set as Rent Boy and Sick Boy.
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McGregor and Boyle were spotting going through a scene
Twenty years on from the original and it’s clear that a lot has changed for this drug-addled pair.
The two actors were captured in pictures on set in Edinburgh, being directed by Boyle.
The photos show McGregor as Mark ‘Rent Boy’ Renton and Miller as Simon ‘Sick Boy’ Williamson, but not as we know them.
Dressed in suits, holding a satchel and paper work, the two are shown leaving the Scottish Parliament, having clearing down some business there.
McGregor's has seen some change in the last 20 years
McGregor and Miller were looking very sharp in their suits
Fans of the original movie will be wondering why this has happened to these cult characters, who have clearly cleaned themselves up.
Perhaps Trainspotting 2 will see them return to their past, maybe they’ve been called to the Scottish Parliament as part of some enquiry or maybe they're actually MSPs.
McGregor was first caught on the Trainspotting 2 set a couple of weeks ago, while Miller did not look quite as happy to be back.
McGregor and Miller were filmed leaving the Scottish Parliament
Director Boyle recently wrote about returning to Edinburgh to make the sequel.
He said: “Coming back to Edinburgh has actually been really fascinating since filming the first Trainspotting.
‘Edinburgh has changed dramatically. You can see the gentrification massively in the city.’
Boyle had always said that he would wait until his actor's had aged enough to make a follow-up to the cult classic.
The new film is set 20 years after the original events and based on Irving Welsh's novel Porno with a screenplay by John Hodge.
The first movie was based on the author's source novel of the same name and famously followed the lives of four addicts as they attempted to profit from a big drug deal.
Ewen Bremner returns as Daniel "Spud" Murphy and Robert Carlyle as Francis "Franco" Begbie.
McGregor is back after 20 years to play Rent Boy once again
Carlyle has praised Hodge's screenplay and said that the sequel will be: "Quite emotional for people.
"The film sort of tells you to think about yourself. You are going to be thinking, 'F***. What have I done with my life?'"
The first film ended with Renton stealing all the money from a drugs deal. Begbie destroyed their hotel room in a rage while Sick Boy and Spud fled as the police arrived.
Trainspotting 2 is out in UK cinemas on January 27, 2017.