Macaulay Culkin is open to returning to the Home Alone franchise that catapulted him into child stardom. Photo: TNS
Macaulay Culkin is open to returning to the Home Alone franchise that catapulted him into child stardom – and he has an idea for a new Kevin McCallister misadventure.
The 45-year-old native New Yorker was on his current A Nostalgic Night With Macaulay Culkin tour when he told fans he’s “not completely allergic” to revisiting the John Hughes-penned Christmas staples, if it’s “the right thing,” Variety reports.
Culkin said he thinks the once-precocious Kevin — who he first played in Home Alone in 1990 followed by 1992’s Home Alone 2: Lost In New York – could be “either a widower or a divorcee” with his own precocious son.
“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,” Culkin said, describing the premise. “[Kevin’s son] won’t let me in… and he’s the one setting traps for me. … The house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship … [to] get let back into my son’s heart.”
Culkin didn’t reveal whether he had any ideas for the return of other iconic characters, such as Joe Pesci’s Harry and Daniel Stern’s Marv, the robber duo known as the Wet Bandits. Pesci and Stern, who starred in the first two films, skipped out on later versions.
Culkin and Chris Columbus, who directed the first two movies, were similarly uninvolved in the numerous follow-up films, though Devin Ratray reprised his role as Buzz McCallister in 2021’s Home Sweet Home Alone.
As for any sort of sequel, Columbus told Entertainment Tonight in August that he thinks a new Home Alone movie should never be made.
“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,” Columbus said. “ 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.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
