Macaulay Culkin Open to ‘Home Alone’ Sequel and Shares Idea: Kevin McCallister Faces Off Against His Son to Get Into Their Locked House

Macaulay Culkin said during a recent stop on his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour that he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to returning as Kevin McCallister in a “Home Alone” sequel. Although he added, “It would have to be just right.” Fortunately, Culkin already has a pitch for a sequel that he would be interested in doing.

“I kind of had this idea,” Culkin said. “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.”

Culkin’s “Home Alone” sequel idea is to more or less replace the robbers with Kevin McCallister, as he battles his own son to reenter their home during the holidays. The actor said “the house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship” and his character has to “get let back into son’s heart’ kind of deal. That’s the closest elevator pitch that I have. I’m not completely allergic to it, the right thing.”

The “Home Alone” franchise turned Culkin into one of the most popular Hollywood child stars of the 1990s when the first movie became a box office blockbuster with $476 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1990. He returned for the 1992 sequel “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” Culkin’s director, Chris Columbus, made headlines in August when he told Entertainment Tonight that 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.”

Both Culkin and Columbus did not participate in “Home Alone 3,” the largely forgotten 1997 installment. A fourth movie was released directly to television in 2002. Disney attempted to reboot the franchise in 2021 with the Disney+ exclusive movie “Home Sweet Home Alone,” starring young “Jojo Rabbit” breakout Archie Yates. Reviews were not kind to the remake, perhaps proving Columbus’ point right.