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Robert Carlyle teases a Trainspotting 3 at T2 premiere

Trainspotting 3 movie plans already? Could The Blade Artist be the next book to head to the big screen with Robert Carlyle?

Robert Carlyle lined up with the rest of the cast at the T2 Trainspotting world premiere in Edinburgh last night, and while all concerned were firmly concentrated on celebrating this Friday’s release of the much applauded sequel, thoughts also turned to other potential instalments in the series. Carlyle spoke about the changes in his iconic character of Begbie in T2, but also touched on potential plans to bring him back for a new film too. Could a Trainspotting 3 movie already be on the way?

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“That is the first time you see maybe there is another side to this guy,” he said to The Telegraph newspaper in the UK. “He’s capable of feeling something more than just rage, so I’m pleased that that element of Begbie has been shown. And maybe that sets up another film, in fact, because Irvine Welsh has written The Blade Artist.”

“We’ve been talking about that, I am up for doing it,” Carlyle added. “So maybe we ain’t seen the end of Begbie just yet.”

The Blade Artist was released in book stores in 2016, and follows Begbie out of jail and in California attempting to make a new start. However, following the death of his son he is brought back to Edinburgh to find out what happened to him.

Here’s the official book synopsis from Amazon.

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.

But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas.

When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.

T2 Trainspotting is released in UK cinemas from Friday 27th January. Read our full review here, and don’t worry, we’ll bring you news on any Trainspotting 3 movie plans as any news heads our way.

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