With T2 Trainspotting having just been released in the U.K. -- and featuring original director Danny Boyle and returning stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle -- we thought it'd be a fine time to take a look at a collection of sequels, of Part 2s, that took a hella long time to come out.
Yes, the characters of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie are back more than two decades after the original film. But attempting to resurrect yesteryear classics, and create that "lust for life" lighting in a bottle twice, isn't a new trend. It's been going on a long time -- even before the cinematic landscape was filled with franchises and movies designed, from the get go, to be the first entry of a quadrilogy.
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Yes, the characters of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie are back more than two decades after the original film. But attempting to resurrect yesteryear classics, and create that "lust for life" lighting in a bottle twice, isn't a new trend. It's been going on a long time -- even before the cinematic landscape was filled with franchises and movies designed, from the get go, to be the first entry of a quadrilogy.
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