Skagboys Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel "Trainspotting", and its 2002 sequel "Porno". It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction. When Welsh described the novel he said: "I think I’m going to call it Skag Boys: “skag” is my favourite word for heroin. It's set before they’re into heroin and investigates how the main characters become junkies, the family dynamics, the anxieties of young men. A lot of the fringe characters become more prominent". "I had a
Young and Dangerous: The Prequel Young and Dangerous: The Prequel Young and Dangerous: The Prequel () is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film directed by Andrew Lau. It is the second prequel in the "Young and Dangerous" film series. The film shows Chan Ho-nam (Nicholas Tse), Chicken Chiu (Sam Lee) and their friends being recruited by Uncle Bee (Ng Chi-Hung) and joining the "Hung Hing" triad. Because he was only 17, and born on 29 August 1980, Nicholas Tse is not allowed to watch the movie when the movie opens in Hong Kong cinemas on 5 June 1998 because this movie is classified as Category