Macaulay Culkin said during a recent stop on his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour that he “would totally not be allergic” to returning as Kevin McCallister in the “Home Alone” sequel. However he added, “It has to be absolutely perfect.” Luckily, Culkin already has a sequel he’d be interested in doing.
Culkin said, “I kind of had this idea.” “I’m either a widower or a divorcee. I’m raising a kid and all that. I’m working really hard and I’m not really paying enough attention and the kid is getting mad at me and then I’m out. (Kevin’s son) won’t let me in… and he’s the one setting the trap for me.”
The idea for Culkin’s “Home Alone” sequel is more or less to replace the robbers with Kevin McAllister as he battles his own son to re-enter his home during the holidays. The actor said, “The house is kind of a metaphor for our relationship” and that his character deals with “letting the son back into his heart. That’s the closest elevator pitch I’ll get to it. I’m not completely allergic to it, to be fair.”
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 with $476 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of the 1990s. He returned for the 1992 sequel “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”. Culkin’s 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 at the moment, but it was a very special moment, and you can’t really recapture that,” Columbus said. “I think it’s a mistake to go back and try to recapture what we did 35 years ago. I think it should be left at that.”
Both Culkin and Columbus did not participate in “Home Alone 3,” a largely forgotten 1997 installment. The 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” breakout Archie Yates. The reviews were not kind to the remake, perhaps Columbus was proven right.
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