Macaulay Culkin said during a recent stop on his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour that he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to the idea of returning as Kevin McCallister in a “Home Alone” sequel. Although he added: “It would have to be fair. » Fortunately, Culkin already has a pitch for a sequel that would interest him.
“I kind of had this idea,” Culkin said. “I’m either widowed or divorced. I’m raising a kid and all that. I work really hard and I don’t really pay enough attention and the kid gets a little upset with me and then I find myself left out. [Kevin’s son] don’t let me in… and he’s the one who’s setting traps for me.
Culkin’s idea for the “Home Alone” sequel is to more or less replace the thieves with Kevin McCallister, as he fights his own son to get into their house during the holidays. The actor said that “the house is a kind of metaphor for our relationship” and that his character has to “put the kind of agreement in his son’s heart again. That’s the closest argument I have. I’m not completely allergic to it, it’s the right thing.”
The “Home Alone” franchise made Culkin one of the most popular Hollywood child stars of the 1990s when the first film became a box office blockbuster grossing $476 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1990. He returned for the 1992 sequel “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” Culkin director Chris Columbus made headlines in August when he told Entertainment Tonight that a new “Home Alone” movie should never be made.
“I think ‘Home Alone’ really exists, not for this watch, but it was this very special moment, and you can’t really recapture it,” Columbus said. “I think it’s a mistake to try to go back and do something we did 35 years ago. I think it should be left alone.”
Culkin and Columbus did not appear in “Home Alone 3,” the largely forgotten 1997 installment. A fourth film was released directly to television in 2002. Disney attempted to reboot the franchise in 2021 with the Disney+ exclusive film “Home Sweet Home Alone,” starring young “Jojo Rabbit” Archie Yates. Critics have not been favorable to the remake, perhaps proving that Columbus was right.
