Trainspotting director Danny Boyle has supported recent claims by Robert Carlyle that a third movie could be on the cards.
Asked if he would do a third film during a radio interview with Chris Evans, Boyle said: "I would love to get this lot back together again."
At the world premiere of T2: Trainspotting in Edinburgh last weekend, Carlyle said that fans of his character Francis 'Franco' Begbie may see the unhinged hardman in a third film in the future.
The sequel, which goes on release here on Friday sees Renton (Ewan McGregor) return to Edinburgh after two decades away, where Begbie (Carlyle), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) await.
Speaking to reporters, Carlyle discussed the possibility of Begbie returning in an adaptation of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh's 2016 book The Blade Artist, in which Begbie, who is now reinvented in the US as an artist, must return home to Scotland.
"We've been talking about that, I am up for doing it," said Carlyle. "So maybe we ain't seen the end of Begbie just yet."
The new movie has been getting very positive reviews, which could tempt Boyle to return to the director's chair for a third time.
When asked about the cast's feelings about reuniting to make a sequel for such a successful movie, he said: "There was an anxiety...I'd sometimes see them looking at me.
"I could tell what they were thinking, which is - 'this better not be bad'!".
He also revealed that despite more money being made available for the twenty year sequel, which is loosely based on Irvine Welsh's book Porno, he was anxious that it didn't loose the authenticity of the original.
"We didn't take as much money as we were offered because we wanted to keep a perspective on it," he said of the new film.
"We said to the guys, 'we are going to pay you all the same (as each other) but it won't be a great deal of money. But if it is a success you'll all share equally in the profits of the film'."
Check back tomorrow for exclusive Irish interviews with the T2: Trainspotting cast
