Former “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin has offered an idea for a legacy sequel to the franchise that made him a household name.
Appearing at the recent “A Nostalgic Night” live event, Culkin says he would be open to returning to his Kevin McCallister role in a new “Home Alone” film, saying (via Variety) that “[I] wouldn’t be completely allergic… It would have to be just right.”
He then added one potential pitch for a film – one in which Kevin is a single parent raising a son and struggling with work-life balance and emotional distance. It’s then he finds his role reversed from the original. Culkin explains:
“I kind of had this idea. 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. The house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship. [Kevin has to] get let back into [his] son’s heart.”
Culkin returned for “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” but skipped the subsequent sequels. The actor became a noted child star in the wake of the first film’s success with movies like “The Good Son,” “My Girl,” and then essentially retired from acting after 1994’s “Richie Rich” before coming back to occasional roles over a decade later.
Director Chris Columbus previously indicated no desire to resurrect the franchise, saying: “You can’t really recapture that.”
