‘Let’s get cracking on Trainspotting 3’

WORK needs to start on a Trainspotting 3 film before the cast end up in a care home for the elderly, the author of the original book has said.

Irvine Welsh urged director Danny Boyle to get a move on with making the film as the 25th anniversary of the original was celebrated.

Released on February 23, 1996, three years after the novel it is based on, the film is widely regarded as putting British cinema back on the map. It also made household names of its cast members, which included Ewan Mcgregor, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle.

Mr Welsh said he would be keen to make a third flick, after Trainspotting 2 was released in 2017.

He said: “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.”

The movie explored issues surrounding poverty and heroin addiction in the Scottish capital but Irvine doesn’t feel it is the responsibility of the arts to improve society.

Mr Welsh said: “I don’t think it is the function of a book, film or piece of music to do social good. I think it’s down to us as individuals.

“The best art can do is move people by flagging up issues that relate to their lives and the world they live in.”