Robert Carlyle will reprise his Trainspotting role in sequel series The Blade Artist

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Carlyle will return to his role as the notorious Francis Begbie role in the six-part series based on The Blade Artist, a novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh published in 2016 that is set in Los Angeles and Edinburgh 20 years after the events of the 1996 Danny Boyle film. "Now known as Jim Francis, Begbie is a reformed character who believes he has found the perfect life," per Deadline. "But a return to Scotland for the funeral of a murdered son he hardly knows confronts him with a past he can barely recall and he soon discovers you can take the boy out of Edinburgh, but you can’t take Edinburgh out of the boy." Buccaneer Media is making The Blade Artist with plans to shop it to streamers and networks.