Now known as Jim Francis, Begbie is a reformed character who believes he has found the perfect life. But a return to Scotland for the funeral of a murdered son he hardly knows confronts him with a ...

Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has been writing for Collider for over two years, and has covered everything ...

Begbie returns! Robert Carlyle is playing the notorious Francis Begbie again in a TV series adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting sequel novel The Blade Artist. Begbie is the role that put ...

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) in "T2 Trainspotting." (Courtesy CTMG, Inc.) The iconic opening shot of director Danny Boyle’s ...

T2 Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle has hinted at another movie in the franchise for his character Begbie. The actor said that we could see more of Begbie on screen, especially now that author Irvine ...

Trainspotting actor Robert Carlyle has confirmed that a spin-off TV show about his character, Begbie, is in the works. "Irvine [Welsh, author of Trainspotting] and myself have been chatting quite a ...

Robert Carlyle has received the first script for new TV series 'The Blade Artist'. The 63-year-old actor is best known for playing sociopathic character Begbie in 1996 movie 'Trainspotting', based on ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

20 years ago, Mark Renton’s jailbait girlfriend Diane told him, “You’re not getting any younger, Mark. The world is changing, music is changing, even drugs are changing. You can’t stay in here all day ...

Fresh on the heels of a successful American release for T2: Trainspotting, Danny Boyle is already contemplating how a third movie in the series might work. The second movie took twenty years to ...

The year was 1996. A little-known filmmaker from Manchester, England, named Danny Boyle, whose only cinematic calling card was the darkly comic 1994 thriller "Shallow Grave," sat down with a ...