The film was directed by Danny Boyle, with an adapted screenplay written by John Hodge. It starred Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner. Welsh made a cameo appearance as the drug dealer Mikey Forrester. The film was ranked 10th by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of all time.[10] It also brought Welsh's book to an international cinema audience and added to the phenomenal popularity of the novel.[11] In 2021, the novel was further adapted into a musical.[12]
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