Elton John has revealed that he wants to take his hit stage show Billy Elliot the Musical from the stage to the screen.

"It would be lovely to do a film version. There are other songs that we had had to leave out of the musical that would be great in the film," he told the BBC.

"You can only do so much on stage with the material you've got and the length of the show, so I think if one did a movie of this show it would be nice to change some things and maybe put something fresh in."

Billy Elliot the Musical is itself based on an acclaimed 2000 British film starring Julie Walters and Jamie Bell, which was written by Lee Hall.