'T2 Transpotting' trailer gives Irvine Welsh's iconic 'choose life' passage a modern update

Author Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting introduced much of the U.K. to heroin and the U.S. to drug culture in Scotland in the mid-'90s.

In one of the most memorable opening scenes in film, Americans were also introduced to Ewan McGregor (aka your new Lumiere, ready to charm Emma Watson), as he ran down Princes Street in Edinburgh to the tune of Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, reading Welsh's passage about choosing life.

"Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a [expletive] big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the [expletive] you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, sticking junk food into your mouth..."

T2 Trainspotting, the sequel set 20 years from the first, has had some fans nervous that the integrity of the cult classic would be missed, as so often happens with remakes (insert bad joke about Ghostbusters here). But from the trailer, which hit Twitter Thursday, the legacy of Welsh's gritty, unflinching novel and first film adaptation seems intact.

"Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares," McGregor reads as Renton, older and maybe a tad wiser.

"Choose looking up old flames, wishing you'd done it differently. And choose watching history repeat itself."

We'll choose to do just that when T2 hits Jan. 27.