Gary Oldman plans to reprise his Oscar-winning performance as Winston Churchill for a new project, the actor revealed this morning.

"I've only scratched the surface. I think that there's another chapter here," said Oldman, who played the wartime leader in the acclaimed 2017 film Darkest Hour. "Maybe a movie, maybe something on television."

The 60-year-old actor has also begun work towards playing Churchill onstage, in an adaptation of a 1947 short story by the prime minister.

"I've been working with Randolph [Churchill's great-grandson] and I've adapted, with their kind permission, the short story The Dream," he said. "I've been talking about maybe doing it as a sort of two-hander onstage."

In the short story, Churchill – a keen amateur painter – is working on a portrait of his late father, Lord Randolph Churchill, when he is visited by his father's ghost.