Editing Trainspotting (film) (section)

===Development===
Producer [[Andrew Macdonald (producer)|Andrew Macdonald]] read [[Irvine Welsh]]'s book on a plane in December 1993, and felt that it could be made into a film.<ref name="grundy">{{cite news | last = Grundy | first = Gareth | title = Hey! Hey! We're the Junkies! | work = [[Neon (magazine)|Neon]] | page = 102 | date = February 1998 }}</ref> He brought it to the attention of director Danny Boyle and writer [[John Hodge (screenwriter)|John Hodge]] in February 1994.<ref name="gordinier">{{cite magazine | last = Gordinier | first = Jeff | title = Stupor Heroes | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = 2 August 1996 | url = https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293580,00.html | access-date = 9 September 2009 | archive-date = 11 August 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090811055327/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293580,00.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="empiremag">{{cite news | title = ''Trainspotting'' | work = [[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] | page = 128 | date = June 1999 }}</ref> Boyle was excited by its potential to be the "most energetic film you've ever seen — about something that ultimately ends up in [[purgatory]] or worse".<ref name="gordinier"/> Hodge read it and made it his goal to "produce a screenplay which would seem to have a beginning, a middle and an end, would last 90 minutes and would convey at least some of the spirit and the content of the book".<ref name="empiremag"/> Boyle convinced Welsh to let them [[Option (filmmaking)|option the rights]] to his book by writing him a letter stating that Hodge and Macdonald were "the two most important Scotsmen since [[Kenny Dalglish]] and [[Alex Ferguson]]".<ref name="grundy"/> Welsh remembered that originally the people wanting to option his book "wanted to make a po-faced piece of [[social realism]] like ''[[Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (film)|Christiane F]]'' or ''[[The Basketball Diaries (film)|The Basketball Diaries]]''".<ref name="grundy"/> He was impressed that Boyle, Hodge and Macdonald wanted everyone to see the film and "not just the arthouse audience".<ref name="grundy"/> In October 1994, Hodge, Boyle and Macdonald spent a lot of time discussing which chapters of the book would and would not translate into film. Hodge finished the first draft by December.<ref name="grundy"/> Macdonald secured financing from [[Channel 4]], a British television station known for funding independent films.<ref name="gordinier"/>