“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.” This is how Culking imagined his character’s future.
He recently stated that he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to playing Kevin McCallister again in a “Home Alone” sequel during an appearance on his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour. “It would have to be just right,” he continued. In Culkin’s “Home Alone” remake, Kevin McCallister, who fights his own son to return home during the holidays, essentially takes the role of the burglars.
According to the actor, “the house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship,” and his character must “get let back into son’s heart. That’s the closest elevator pitch that I have. I’m not completely allergic to it, the right thing.”
Culkin became one of the most well-known child stars of the 1990s Hollywood era thanks to the “Home Alone” franchise. The original picture went on to become the second-highest-grossing movie of 1990, earning $476 million around the world. For the 1992 follow-up “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” he made a comeback. Chris Columbus, Culkin’s director, made news in August when he told Entertainment Tonight that a new “Home Alone” film should never be relaunched.
“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.”
