Boyle: 'There will be a Trainspotting 2'

Danny Boyle has revealed that he is still planning to make a sequel to Trainspotting.

Trainspotting was a 1996 film based on the Irvine Welsh novel by the same name and tells the story of a group of heroin addicts. Boyle, whose film 127 Hours is in US theatres now, spoke to Cinematical about the impending sequel.

"It will happen, I think," Boyle said "I mean, we'll approach them all again about it, but it will depend on what place they're all at. We have a very strong idea that it would be a wonderful thing to do again when they have aged clearly into a mid-life kind of crisis. They're not quite there yet, I don't think."

Boyle said that the sequel would follow the plot of Welsh's follow-up novel Porno to some extent. However, Boyle admitted, as Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor has in the past, that Porno's story is not necessarily cut out for the movie characters.

Boyle said: "The book Porno is not a great book in the way that the original novel is genuinely a masterpiece - as a piece of writing. But we have been doing some work on it, and it's got potential, for sure. And when the moment's right, I think we will approach it."