Danny Boyle has said he is planning a sequel to Trainspotting that could find its way to the big screen for 2016, the 20th anniversary of the cult film about Edinburgh drug addicts.

Speaking to the Playlist while promoting his new film Trance, Boyle said that Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge was working on an adaptation of Porno, Irvine Welsh’s 2002 sequel to his late-80s-set debut. The long-mooted film adaptation would reunite Renton, Sick Boy and Begbie two decades on.

“This has been a long time coming,” said Boyle. “There’s always been this long-term plan for Trainspotting 2. If John can produce a decent enough script, I don’t think there will be any barriers to Ewan [McGregor] or any of the cast coming back. I think they’ll wanna know that the parts are good so they don’t feel like they are letting anyone down.”

Boyle added: “The reason for doing it again is that people cherish the original, people remember it or have caught up with it if they never saw because they were younger. So you want to make sure you don’t disappoint people. That will be the only criteria I think.”

The Oscar-winning British film-maker said the new project would only be “very loosely based” on the novel Porno, which he has previously described as being “not as good” as Trainspotting. “There’s a couple of things that are based on the book, but obviously we’d have to have Irvine on board,” he said. “The ideal time would be Porno in 2016, because it was 1996 when Trainspotting came out. Twenty years, it’s like, ‘wow, where did that go?'”

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