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Ewan McGregor is refusing to star in a sequel to the movie that made him famous, because he hates the book it's based on.
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is reteaming with author Irvine Welsh to take Porno to the big screen - 13 years after Trainspotting made them all household names.
But McGregor, who played the lead character Renton in Trainspotting, is snubbing the follow-up, claiming Welsh's second book isn't good enough.
He tells Moviefone, "I didn't think the book was very good. The novel of Trainspotting was quite fantastic, it was beautiful, quite moving and disturbing writing, and then I find that the sequel... the book that Irvine Welsh wrote didn't move me as much... He'd written a good sequel to the film as opposed to a sequel to his book.
"Also, I think just the idea of getting the cast together again 10 to 15 years later isn't good enough, you need more than that. I wouldn't want to damage Trainspotting's reputation, because it was an amazing film and a very important film of its time, a very important film for me and... a very important film for British cinema. I wouldn't want to leave people remembering a poor sequel rather than leaving its reputation where it sits at the moment, which is kind of a phenomenal film."
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