Irvine Welsh adaptation set to explore the agony of Ecstasy
A Canadian
company are bringing the seedy world of nightclubs, drug dealers and excellent
music of Trainspotting’s Irvine Welsh across the pond with the upcoming summer
release of Ecstasy.
Starring Adam
Sinclair (Mile High), Kristen Kreuk (Smallville) and Billy Boyd (Lord Of The
Rings), Ecstasy will once more explore the highs and lows of a life spent on
the narcotic-fuelled fringes of society. Sinclair plays Lloyd, a successful
smuggler and habitual user of the eponymous drug who falls for bored
middle-class housewife Heather. As the two descend into a hazy lifestyle of
clubs and pill-popping, they begin to wonder if their feelings for each other
are real or chemically-induced. Lloyd wants out of the life. All that stands
between him and freedom is one last job, and in the nature of all
one-last-jobs, it won’t be easy.
A host of
contemporary club-land regulars are set to feature on the soundtrack, including
Tiesto, Orbital, Primal Scream, Paul Oakenfold and, um, Coldplay, no doubt
providing a pulsating big-beat background to the chemically-enhanced
proceedings.
Despite
countless imitators, few films have managed to capture the lurid glamour and
grim reality of the drug scene as well as Trainspotting did over a decade ago,
which makes Irvine Welsh’s involvement a worthy reason to experiment with
Ecstasy.
Ecstasy will
be arriving on DVD and Blu-Ray on the 20th August 2012.
Source: Subtitled Online
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