Trainspotting (novel) grown eloquent". The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, "Trainspotting" (1996), directed by Danny Boyle. Welsh wrote a sequel, "Porno", in 2002. "Skagboys", a novel that serves as a prequel, was published in April 2012. The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. The novel's origins in short fiction are still visible though no segment or chapter is wholly independent of the others. The majority of the stories are narrated by the novel's central protagonist,
Prequel For example, "" (1999) is a prequel to "Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi" (1983) but is only a "predecessor" rather than a "prequel" of "" (2002) because of the release order. Likewise, 1984's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is a prequel to 1981's "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark," in that it is set in 1935, one year before the first film. Sometimes "prequel" describes followups where it is not always possible to apply a label defined solely in terms of intertextuality. In the case of "The Godfather Part II", the