"Hello Mark. So what you been up to... for 20 years?"
From the opening line of the Trainspotting 2 trailer, any fears that the sequel would in some way be an awkward departure from the original are immediately blown away.
The first full-length trailer for Danny Boyle's T2: Trainspotting is like an intoxicating trip down memory lane: Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie are all 20 years older, but their lives (with the possible exception of Renton's) look depressingly similar to how they did in the original.
The clip above doesn't give too much away: we know Mark has returned to Scotland after a 20-year absence, and that Begbie is also back (presumably from a long stint in jail); we also know, from the random glimpses of drug-taking and violence, that Mark's return doesn't go entirely smoothly.
"You're an addict," says Renton in the familiar background narration. "So be addicted."
"Just be addicted to something else."
Whether he's broken free or he's about to be sucked back into his old ways, though, remains to be seen.
T2: Trainspotting will be in cinemas on Jan. 27, 2017.
