Danny Boyle, the director of cult Scottish movie Trainspotting, has revealed he wants to call the sequel T2.

He also revealed that the new film, due for release in 2016, would revisit the characters from the Edinburgh-set 1996 original.

He said: "We're not going to call it Trainspotting: The Sequel, we are going to call it T2."

Referring to the landmark documentary series, he added: "It will be like 7 Up, 21 Up, where you look at a bunch of people now –and people do know those characters – and what has happened to them in the last 20 years."