Macaulay Culkin His Reveals ‘Idea’ for a Home Alone Sequel

Macaulay Culkin has given a lot of thought to a potential Home Alone sequel. 

“I wouldn’t be completely allergic to it,” the 45-year-old star of the 1990 holiday classic said at his A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin tour on Sunday, Nov. 22. The event, held at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, Calif., celebrated the 35th anniversary of Home Alone.

“It would have to be just right,” Culkin said of a follow-up to the 1990 comedy and its 1992 sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, in which he starred as abandoned youngster Kevin McCallister. (Third and fourth installments and a 2021 Disney+ reboot have followed, all with different casts.)

“I kind of had this idea,” he revealed, explaining how Kevin’s story might continue decades later. “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.”

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Kevin’s son, he continued, “won’t let me in.” Instead of robbers like Joe Pesci’s Harry and Daniel Stern’s Marv, “he’s the one setting traps for me.”

Furthermore, “the house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship,” added Culkin, a “‘get let back into his heart’ kind of deal. That’s the closest elevator pitch that I have. I’m not completely allergic to it, the right thing.”

Also at A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin, the actor discussed legally changing his middle name for a comedic bit and how his two sons, who he shares with fiancée Brenda Song, don’t recognize him when they watch Home Alone. “They have no idea that I’m Kevin,” he shared. 

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Home Alone’s original director Chris Columbus weighed in on another potential sequel. “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,” the filmmaker 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.”