Author Irvine Welsh Breaks Down Film & TV Adaptations of his Books

Orite Irvin👍 I remember speaking to you in the phone. 20 minutes after the hibs hearts 6 2 game. My cousin was having a bevvy with you in a pub in London. I remember addressing you as Mr Welsh ❤😂😂😂

I ordered the book Trainspotting from my favorite bookstore in Chicago before it was even available. I had one of the first copies back then. The lady who owned the bookstore had never read anything by Mr. Welsh but she read the synopsis on the back of that copy after calling me to tell me it was in and ordered one for herself and many for her store. I loved the novel, the movie adaptation (the cast was spot on for their parts) and it was awesome in T2 to see a continued storyline with the lads older and more mature (?!) and with grown-up problems. Mr. Welsh seems like a chill
guy but you can see the raver he once was by the glint of mischief in his eyes!

Whit a load ay bullshit that T2 has turned out to be. Such a great book, such a stupid half-arsed adaptation.

Irvine Welsh is a very strange racist junkie.

Irvine Welsh one of the best writers in the world

Fucking love Filth. Currently watching the tv adapation of Crime and my feelings are mixed.

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“Quite an iconic opening scene” is an understatement

Here I am surrounded by my family and my so called mates and I've never felt so alone. I sooooo relate. 7 years 5 months clean and sober

The Acid House is glorious, "BOAB" especially..... the depiction of God is one of the best yet. Many thanks Mr Welsh.

Love his books. You're tha big man! Sorry, sir.

trying to listen to him speak... now i understand why he writes the way he does 😂

Welsh is very forgiving, when you consider T2 isn't Porno. The only part of the film that crosses into his book is Spue'w sub-plot. I enjoyed both takes, but usually authors disown movies like T2. It just goes to show how Welsh is so relaxed about these things.

I love it that his take on "Filth" is that James McAvoy is an amazing actor 😅👍

Fuckin Mikey Forester!

“Small nutters are always the most dangerous in Scotland”.

It’s not just Scotland

"Take it while you can get it" ...this is the real Irvine Welsh

Ya fooking Bufty 💛 🤔

Trainspotting and Life of Brian are the best British films of alltime.

For anyone who doesn't know the other books or films apart from trainspotting.

Acid House film is crazy v sexy/skanky v funny tragic,(v weird granny pegging her husband and he fantasises saying essen mein scheibe gehen is so hilariously disgusting) decent film trilogy 8/10 Filth Decent bit of a trainspotting pastiche funny weird and tragic bits lol. Great soundtracks7/10

Extacy is the similar themes we'll acted 7/10
Didn't watch Dougrae Scott's film but he was good in Twin Town.
All the books are all good easy reads with britpop culture vibes if you can deal with the Edinburgh slang.

The Simpsons even referenced the Trainspotting opening scene in The Regina Monologues when Bart and Lisa were on a sugar rush.

Acid House & Trainspotting 👏

Just saw Trainspotting live in Edinburgh fantastic take on a film that has aged so very well. Loved Irvine’s cameo in the newly released Dick Dynamite 1944 hilariously brilliant! Love the man where would we be without him x

Trainspotting is possibly my favorite film of all time, so awesome to get this insight from the author of the book, even if I must strain to understand him at times as an American midwesterner.

Irvine Welsh? Had it. Lost it.

Hi I'm Irvine Welsh and I'm a one trick pony.

I’ve never been disappointed with penguin books. I regret not getting the Witcher books from them even though the covers weren’t as good the paper and print is so much better

Mr Welsh is an amazing author. The films are great but the books are priceless.

If it's not Scottish, it's crap!

I'm happy he is satisfied with the trainspotting movie.

McAvoy did a heroes job, but Filth as it was filmed isn't even remotely satisfactory. The novel introduced me to Frank Sidebottom/Chris Sievey's work, which I presumed was an entirely fictitious hallucinatory element at first. To find out later that this was a real person was truly wild.

He’s not Welsh?

another drug addict

Glue is, in my opinion, his greatest work. One of only two books to ever make me cry.

Fillim

woah mike ehrmentraut

Irving always looks like a guy in the pub who just got a delivery from Jacamo.

I can just imagine all the Americans watching going "what is he saying?" through squinting eyes.

nonce

The side of Edinburgh (at least in the 90's) that tourists never knew about.

He wrote one good book, and then proceeded to write it again and again and again. He has remarkably little of interest to say on anything and is almost incoherent.

Fully agree about Filth... always seen Bruce as being much older looking. The film was great but the book had me in tears on a few occasions. Love his work and his books are the only fiction I read now. Keep at it Irvine. Much love from a weegie

Granny always told me to never get off the bus in Leith.

You can clearly see the moustache hés supposed to have, but refuses to let grow.

I see some of the fi-lm was filmed in ful-ham

Love to know where his hatred for dogs comes from. He kills a lot of dogs for one man.

Trainspotting junkie!

Its ironic that James Mcevoy more closely resembled Ray Lennox, while Dougray Scott more closely resembles Bruce Robinson, at the time the books came out, at least.

Wasn't he in trainspotting 2?
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