--- description: Ewan McGregor and the cast of the 1996 drama "Trainspotting" return in the new trailer for the movie's sequel, directed by Danny Boyle. title: See the Gang Return in the Trailer for 'T2: Trainspotting' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte948d4b2183107d5/6988acd92dce01d0739eb4a8/screen-shot-2016-11-03-at-11-59-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Ewan McGregor Choose Life in the Trailer for _T2: Trainspotting_  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Nov 3, 2016 3:39 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Nov 3, 2016 3:39 PM CUT The trailer for [_T2: Trainspotting_ ](http://time.com/4421546/trainspotting-2-sequel-danny-boyle/ "undefined")begins much in the same way as the trailer for the original movie, released in 1996, with a sober voiceover enjoining us to “choose life.” And then it shows its age: “Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.” “Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it differently.” The sequel reunites director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge (nominated for an Oscar for the first film) and the stars of the original ([Ewan McGregor](http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,48790656001%5F1936224,00.html "undefined"), Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle), situating the action 20 years later. It’s clear that the second movie will feature all of the sex, drugs and late-night lunacy that made the first one so entrancing, but this time through that hazy lens that only time affords us: maturity (more or less). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4556401/t2-trainspotting-trailer-ewan-mcgregor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4556401/t2-trainspotting-trailer-ewan-mcgregor/"},"headline":"Watch Ewan McGregor Choose Life in the Trailer for T2: Trainspotting","datePublished":"2016-11-03T15:39:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:57:01.974Z","description":"The sequel comes two decades after the original","url":"https://time.com/4556401/t2-trainspotting-trailer-ewan-mcgregor/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte948d4b2183107d5/6988acd92dce01d0739eb4a8/screen-shot-2016-11-03-at-11-59-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte948d4b2183107d5/6988acd92dce01d0739eb4a8/screen-shot-2016-11-03-at-11-59-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2016-11-03-at-11-59-04-am","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4556401/t2-trainspotting-trailer-ewan-mcgregor/","name":"Watch Ewan McGregor Choose Life in the Trailer for T2: Trainspotting"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"The sequel comes two decades after the original","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4556401/t2-trainspotting-trailer-ewan-mcgregor/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4556401/t2-trainspotting-trailer-ewan-mcgregor/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```