Don't expect the original Kevin McCallister, Macaulay Culkin, to show up in Disney+'s re-imagining of the Home Alone franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone.
"Hey y'all. Just a heads up since I've been getting this question a lot today: I am NOT in the new Home Alone reboot," Culkin tweeted shortly after the Home Sweet Home Alone trailer dropped. "I wish all involved the best of luck though," he added.
Culkin famously starred in 1990's Home Alone as Kevin, a trouble-making eight-year-old who's accidentally left behind in Chicago when his family vacations in Paris over the winter holidays, forcing him to defend his home from a pair of bumbling burglars. Produced for $18 million, the film grossed $476.7 million -- an especially massive number for the time -- and received mostly positive reviews, cementing its status as a modern Christmas-themed comedy classic.
Home Alone received a less-beloved (though financially successful) sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, in 1992, with Culkin reprising his role as Kevin. However, the actor did not return for 1997's Home Alone 3, a film that centers around a different family from Chicago. The spinoff received generally negative reviews and failed to scale anywhere near the same box office heights as its predecessors, resulting in the next two Home Alone movies (one of which recasts the McCallisters while the other follows a different family from Maine) being released as made-for-TV films on ABC and ABC Family.
Directed by Dan Mazer (Dirty Grandpa), Home Sweet Home Alone revolves around Max Mercer (Jojo Rabbit's Archie Yates), a ten-year-old who must protect his home from a married couple trying to steal a priceless heirloom after he's inadvertently left by himself when his family goes on a trip to Tokyo over the winter holidays. And despite its many similarities to the original Home Alone movie, right down to specific lines of dialogue, the film is actually based in the same universe as Home Alone 1 & 2, as opposed to being a hard reboot. Its trailer even has Devin Ratray reprising his role from those movies as Kevin's brother Buzz, who's now grown-up and works as a cop.
Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney and Kenan Thompson co-star in Home Sweet Home Alone, with Mazer drawing from a script provided by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell. The film premieres on Disney+ Nov. 12.
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