found: Wikipedia, via WWW, April 14, 2017(John Hodge (screenwriter); John Hodge (born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British screenwriter and dramatist, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title; raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh; Hodge started writing screenplays after meeting producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1991; he moved to London after writing Shallow Grave and gave up medicine to concentrate on writing; his films include Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996) A Life Less Ordinary (1997), The Beach (2000), The Final Curtain (2002), and the short film Alien Love Triangle (2002); most of his films are directed by Danny Boyle; Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, and A Life Less Ordinary all starred Ewan McGregor)