Could Kevin McAlister be making a comeback?
There is a possibility, according to actor Macaulay Culkin, who played McAlister, the young boy who gets left behind as his family travels to Paris and is forced to defend their Chicago home from robbers in the 1990 holiday classic “Home Alone.”
Filmmakers don’t need to go far to develop a plot; Culkin actually came up with an idea.
The actor revealed his pitch for a sequel during a recent stop on his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin,” Variety reported.
“I kind of had this idea,” Culkin said. “I’m either a widower or a divorcee. I’m raising a kid and all that stuff. I’m working really hard and I’m not really paying enough attention and the kid is kind of getting miffed at me and then I get locked out. [Kevin’s son] won’t let me in… and he’s the one setting traps for me.”
McAllister wouldn’t be defending himself from robbers, he would essentially be replacing them.
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Culkin said while he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to another one “it would have to be just right.”
Director Christopher Columbus, who was behind the first two films, hasn’t weighed in on the pitch, but earlier this year did stun some fans while discussing remakes.
And he wasn’t onboard.
“I think Home Alone really exists as, not at this timepiece, but it was this very special moment, and you can’t really recapture that,” he told Entertainment Tonight during a red carpet appearance in August. “I think it’s a mistake to try to go back and recapture something we did 35 years ago. I think it should be left alone.”
“Home Alone” became the second-highest-grossing film of 1990, established Culkin as a child star and was widely recognized as one of the most popular Christmas movies of all time.
Since the movie’s debut 35 years ago, there have been five sequels, with the most recent being Disney+’s “Home Sweet Home Alone,” which premiered in 2021.
But of the sequels, only one, “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” starred Culkin.
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