Will Oldman return as Winston?

DARKEST HOUR screenwriter Anthony McCarten reveals he’s working on a sequel for his award-winning film about Sir Winston Churchill.

‘There is a later period of his life I am looking at very closely, which I think would be an incredible companion piece,’ McCarten tells me at the film’s DVD release in Marylebone. ‘It has the same ingredients: a critical moment for the world and a story that can be told over a very few days.’

Fortunately, Gary Oldman, who won an Oscar for his role in the film, is up for a sequel — but says he needs a ‘couple of years off’ before putting on the fat suit and sitting through four hours of make-up each day again.