Macaulay Culkin’s Pitch for a Home Alone Sequel: Kevin’s Son Shouldn’t Let Him Into the House
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Macaulay Culkin offered an exciting idea for returning as Kevin McCallister in a Home Alone sequel during his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour.
He says he isn’t “entirely allergic” to reprising the role, adding that the script simply needs to be “right.” Culkin then presents his own idea: “Either my wife has passed away or I’m divorced. I’m raising a kid and dealing with all that. I’m working hard and not paying enough attention to my kid, and he’s upset with me — and then I get locked out of the house. The kid won’t let me in… and he sets traps for me.”
Culkin essentially replaces himself with the burglars who end up in a cat-and-mouse chase with Kevin McCallister when he’s left home alone. The actor adds that the house would serve as a “metaphor for our relationship” and that his character would need to earn back his place in the child’s heart: “This is the closest thing to an elevator pitch I’ve ever had. I’m not entirely allergic to it — I’m allergic to the wrong version.”
The first Home Alone grossed more than $476 million in 1990, followed by Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in 1992, in which McCallister is supposed to go on a family trip to Florida but ends up in New York City.
Chris Columbus, director of the original films, told Entertainment Tonight in August that the sequel should never have been made: “I think Home Alone is not just a time capsule but a very special moment, and you can’t recreate it. I think trying to go back and recreate something we made 35 years ago is a mistake. You have to let it go.”
The third Home Alone film, made without Columbus or Culkin, was released in 1997, and the fourth installment premiered in 2002 as a TV movie. Disney made another film in 2021, Home Sweet Home Alone, starring Archie Yates, which received overwhelmingly negative reviews.
