Fans praying for a resurrection of Trainspotting … rejoice!
Author Irvine Welsh reckons a third instalment of the unholy Trinity could be in the pipeline.
Characters Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie were first brought to life on the big screen in 1996 by Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and pals, before they were reunited two years ago in T2 Trainspotting.
Directed by Danny Boyle, it was based on Welsh’s novel Trainspotting and follow-up Porno, which caught up with the now middle-aged group.
And the Scottish novelist has revealed his hopes for not one, but two more films in the series.
Speaking on the Anything Goes podcast with James English, he admits: “You think the Godfather III, Terminator III - there’s the temptation to do the Holy Trinity, it might evoke Danny’s inner Catholic.
“It took us long enough to work up the bottle to do number two.
“They’ll all be in the rest home by the time we had the bottle to do number three.
“We’d have to get moving on it pretty quickly.
“But it’s something that would be massively interesting to me.”
However, the author also revealed he’d quite like a spinoff on Robert Carlyle’s violent character Begbie, something he does in novel The Blade Artist.
He admitted: “The one I would like to do is a Begbie stand-alone. Just a short 90-minute film of Robert Carlyle going nuts.”
