'He's the One Setting Traps for Me' — Macaulay Culkin Shares His Home Alone Sequel Idea

Macaulay Culkin isn’t conscionable unfastened to a caller Home Alone movie, helium has a slayer thought for it.

The 1990 Christmas movie classical is 1 of Hollywood’s astir enduring films. It starred a 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin arsenic the quick-thinking Kevin McCallister, who defends his location from thieves by mounting dastardly traps that tore Joe Pesci’s Harry and Daniel Stern’s Marv to bits successful Tom & Jerry benignant comedic violence.

The likewise palmy Home Alone 2: Lost successful New York followed 2 years aboriginal and saw Culkin, by this constituent a kid star, reprise his relation arsenic Kevin. But helium skipped the subsequent, little good known sequels: 1997’s Home Alone 3, 2002’s Home Alone 4, 2012’s Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, and 2021’s Home Sweet Home Alone.

Now, implicit 30 years since helium past played Kevin, the 45-year-old Culkin has expressed involvement successful returning to the satellite of Home Alone, and has adjacent revealed his thought for the sequel. Speaking during his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour, arsenic reported by Variety, Culkin confirmed helium “wouldn’t beryllium wholly allergic” to returning arsenic Kevin successful a Home Alone sequel, insisting “it would person to beryllium conscionable right.”

Then, the pitch:

“I benignant of had this idea. I’m either a widower oregon a divorcee. I’m raising a kid and each that stuff. I’m moving truly hard and I’m not truly paying capable attraction and the kid is benignant of getting miffed astatine maine and past I get locked out. [Kevin’s son] won’t fto maine in… and he’s the 1 mounting traps for me.”

So, alternatively of Kevin defending his location from robbers, helium becomes the robber successful a relation flip. Culkin added: “the location is immoderate benignant of metaphor for our relationship.” In the movie, Kevin would person to “get fto backmost into” his son’s heart. “That’s the closest elevator transportation that I have,” helium said. “I’m not wholly allergic to it, the close thing.”

But volition Culkin get the accidental to marque this pitch? In August, Chris Columbus, who directed the archetypal 2 Home Alone movies, said helium didn’t privation Hollywood to instrumentality to the series.

“I deliberation Home Alone truly exists as, not astatine this timepiece, but it was this precise peculiar moment, and you can’t truly recapture that,” helium told Entertainment Tonight. “I deliberation it’s a mistake to effort to spell backmost and recapture thing we did 35 years ago. I deliberation it should beryllium near alone.” Also successful August, Columbus issued his verdict connected which is best, Home Alone oregon Home Alone 2?

In the shorter term, Culkin voices Cattrick Lynxley successful Zootopia 2, and is acceptable to prima successful Fallout Season 2 connected Prime Video.

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