Danny Boyle has spoken out about the possibility of making a movie sequel to Trainspotting , revealing that āit will happen, I thinkā.
A book sequel to his break-out 1996 hit Trainspotting already exists - Porno , written by Irvine Welsh - and has long been rumoured to be making its way to the big screen.
But only now is Boyle confirming that it could become a possibility, hopefully with many of Trainspotting ās original cast all returning.
āIt will happen, I think,ā he tells Cinematical . āI mean, weāll approach them all again about it, but it will depend on what place theyāre all at.
āWe have a very strong idea that it would be a wonderful thing to reapproach, to do again, when they have aged clearly into a mid-life kind of crisis, basically. Theyāre not quite there yet, I donāt think.ā
Porno is set some years after Trainspotting , and features all the main characters from that earlier story. Clearly, Boyle is waiting for Ewan McGregor, Kelly McDonald et al to reach the right age to realistically make a sequel.
Boyle, however, agrees that the source material for the sequel isnāt quite as good as the source material for Trainspotting , though he remains hopeful that with a little tweaking it could become brilliant.
ā Porno is not a great book in the way that Trainspotting , the original novel, is genuinely a masterpiece, I think, as a piece of writing. But we have been doing some work on it, and itās got potential, yeah, for sure. And when the momentās right, I think we will approach it.ā