Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic has yet to hit theatres but it looks like he already has his eye on his next project.
At the Telluride Film Festival, the Academy Award winning director told Deadline he wants to make a sequel to Trainspotting, the film which kick started his career back in 1996.
Trainspotting, which is based on Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name, chronicles the lives of a group of heroin addicts in 1980's Scotland. It was the highest grossing British film of 1996 and bagged a couple of Academy Award nominations that year.
The proposed sequel will take place some 20 years after the original and will borrow heavily from Porno, which was Welsh's follow up novel.
Boyle says that, 'the four main actors want to come back and do it, Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series.'
The first film starred Ewan McGregor in the lead role of Mark Renton, a drug addled youth looking to come clean. Joining him were Jonny Lee Miller (currently playing Sherlock Homes in CBS' Elementary), Robert Carlyle (A regular on ABC's Once Upon A Time), and Kelly MacDonald (her run on HBO's Boardwalk Empire ended last year).
Carlyle previously said that the sequel is 'closer than it's ever been' and the timing of Boyle's announcement does feel a bit serendipitous. 2016 would mark the 20th anniversary of the original, so it would be fitting to release the sequel then.
For now though, all eyes are on Boyle's current film Steve Jobs which has been receiving considerable praise so far. It stars Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, and Jeff Daniels and is set to hit theatres on October 9.
