De Niro 'interested in Taxi Driver 2'

Robert De Niro has admitted that he would like to make a sequel to Taxi Driver.

The Martin Scorsese-directed cult classic was nominated for four Oscars upon its release in 1976. De Niro has now revealed his ambitions to play protagonist Travis Bickle for a second time.

He told MTV: "I have talked to writer Paul Schrader and Marty. We've spoken about what would happen to Travis these years later.

"We had a thing and we tried to figure it out; Paul was trying to come up with something. And it just didn't seem to work."

While director Lars Von Trier was forced to shoot down speculation in February that he had teamed up with Scorsese to start work on the project, De Niro explained that the chance still remains for a second movie to be made.

He added: "You never know - something could come up. I thought it would be interesting to find a way to bring Travis back all these years later - maybe with something ironic about where he'd end up, as he did in the first one. All these years later, maybe we could. It's still possible."