Macaulay Culkin said during his recent “Nostalgic Nights with Macaulay Culkin” tour that he’s “not totally allergic” to returning as Kevin McCallister in the “Home Alone” sequel. However, he added, “It should be just right.” Luckily, Culkin is already planning a sequel and is interested in it.
“I had this idea,” Culkin said. “I’m a widow or a divorcee. I’m raising my kids. I’m working hard and I’m not giving them enough attention, so my kids get mad at me and then I get shut out.[Kevin’s son]won’t let me in the house…and he’s setting a trap for me.”
Culkin’s idea for the “Home Alone” sequel is that instead of a burglar, Kevin McAllister struggles to re-enter his son’s home while on vacation. The actor said that “the house is kind of a metaphor for our relationship” and that his character “has to make a deal that pulls him back into his son’s mind. That’s the closest elevator pitch I have. I’m not completely allergic to it, which is the right thing to do.”
The Home Alone series made Culkin one of the most popular Hollywood child actors of the 1990s, and the first film grossed $476 million worldwide, making it the second-highest grossing film of 1990. Culkin returned in 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’ actually exists, not at this point in time on this watch, but it was a very special moment and it’s really impossible to get that back,” Columbus said. “I think it’s a mistake to go back 35 years and try to recapture something. I think it should be left alone.”
Neither Culkin nor Columbus were involved in the largely forgotten 1997 feature Home Alone 3. The fourth film was released direct to television in 2002. Disney attempted to reboot the series in 2021 with the Disney+ exclusive film “Home Sweet Home Alone,” starring young “Jojo Rabbit” star Archie Yates. Reviews were not positive for the remake, perhaps proving Columbus right.
