Morton reveals 'The Unloved' trilogy plan

Samantha Morton has revealed plans to make her critically-acclaimed directorial debut into a trilogy.

The Oscar-nominated British actress insisted at last year's release of The Unloved that it represented a one-off move behind the camera.

Morton told The Observer that she has since changed her mind and wants to develop the story, which drew on her own childhood experience of care homes and surviving on the streets of Nottingham.

"I've had time to think and now I want to make it into a trilogy," she said. "I want to make an angrier film about foster care and all the bureaucracy that traps children, and then one about homelessness."

Morton added that she did not undertake the film, released on DVD tomorrow, to find some form of catharsis. "It wasn't therapeutic. I didn't do it for that reason. If I had wanted to do that, I would have made it a lot earlier and it would have been an angrier film. It may sound strange, but I wanted to make a beautiful film about what happened to me," she said.