Home Alone getting rebooted for Disney+
 

Apparently Home Alone is getting a reboot for the Disney+ service.
https://popculture.com/streaming/201...ks-at-disney-/

Let Mac be the burglar this time.

Now with all female cast.

Columbus says the planned 'Home Alone' remake by Disney Plus is a 'waste of time'

Are you involved at all with what Disney Plus is doing with their "Home Alone" remake?

No, nobody got in touch with me about it, and it's a waste of time as far as I'm concerned. What's the point? I'm a firm believer that you don't remake films that have had the longevity of "Home Alone." You're not going to create lightning in a bottle again. It's just not going to happen. So why do it? It's like doing a paint-by-numbers version of a Disney animated film — a live-action version of that. What's the point? It's been done. Do your own thing. Even if you fail miserably, at least you have come up with something original.

I can even be accused of it myself, with "Home Alone 2." That movie is basically a remake of the first "Home Alone." Does it need to exist? Yes, because some of those stunts make me laugh really hard, but I just don't believe it should be done. There's going to be a "Stoned Alone" with Ryan Reynolds. God only knows what that will be — a stoner version of "Home Alone?" (This was in development at Fox before it merged with Disney.) Listen, have fun. I just feel, do something new. Life is short.

'Home Alone' at 30: Director Chris Columbus talks Trump 'bullying his way' into a cameo and more never-before-told stories

Chris Columbus explains Donald Trump bullied his way into his ‘HOME ALONE 2’ cameo because he owned the hotel.

“We paid the fee, but he also said, 'The only way you can use the Plaza is if I'm in the movie.' So we agreed to put him in.”

https://www.insider.com/home-alone-3....co/ilZjsOMgtx

Just make Home Alone 5 (yes, there was a 3 and 4) with Culkin as the dad. Same kind of scenario, but with an ironic 2020 sensibility. Writes itself.

After this thread was resurrected I looked up articles on the reboot and there actually is a Home Alone 5 already. I never heard of the television film until now and it reads terrible just like the others that don't have McCauley Culkin.

I am with Chris Columbus on this. Not interested in seeing a modern interpretation. I have seen Home Alone probably third most of any film after the first two TMNT films,but no thanks.

Another worthless remake?
I'll pass, thank you.

They already tried a sequel with a new character set in the same universe, they tried a remake, they tried a reboot with new characters. This will be just another forgotten Home Alone sequel.

There was already a Home Alone 5, this would be Home Alone 6. Adult Culkin as dad would be the best option, especially with how popular the parodies with adult culkin or other cast members have been but I don't see Disney doing that.

Oh crap, you're right. I forgot there was a 5, and not even that long ago. Wow, Malcolm McDowell was slumming it in that? Yeesh.

Probably not. Though Culkin has remained somehow scandal free growing up so as to keep himself non-radioactive to studios. It wouldn't need like a huge budget or anything, either.

I know, considering how much of that time was spent sticking needles in his arm, I'm as shocked as you.

I mentioned this on Blu-ray forums.

It’s ridiculous that he’d be so upset when part 4 was done in continuity with the original 2 but with a different kid. He had to make sure to take a jab at Disney’s live action remakes too huh?

It’s funny that he seemingly only cares now that it’s technically a reboot to his. From the early description I’m guessing it could easily be Home Alone 6 but call it a reboot and people can’t wait to crap on it.

No reboot/remake is trying to outdo anything. They’re just different or modern takes.

I’ve seen all of them. I enjoyed 3. The worst was 4 and not just because it reused Kevin. I thought 5 was amusing. I find them interesting. This new one sounds like it’ll have the best production in awhile though.

For f*ck's sake, how many "new takes" do we NEED of a premise that's exactly as "deep" as, "Guy gets hit in the face with ______, falls down stairs, repeat"? :roll:

The fact that there were even TWO "Home Alone" movies stretches things beyond all credibility. And I don't even hate Part 2, it just has no reason whatsoever to exist. That fact increases exponentially with each successive sequel/remake.

One was plenty. Literally everything that needed to be done with the premise was done the first time. Dumb.

There can be many scenarios where thieves want to break into someone’s house. It’s a pretty broad idea. A comedy about burglars and kids is off the table forever now because of the original HA?

The only reason this particular version is gaining more attention than the others is because it’s labeled a reboot. If it was called Home Alone 6 or a subtitle I doubt he or anyone else would care enough to make these type of comments.

As always, your continued defense of the indefensible is astounding.

Ok seriously. Where were these comments with the last dtv movies and the one reusing the Kevin character? Ya they got the usual criticism for those type of movies but you really had to look up the thoughts of others who saw them.

They decide to make another one but this time for whatever reason label it a reboot and it gains more mainstream attention because of that 1 word. Look we’re talking about it when the rest just past us by.

So I can make a movie about a kid fighting burglars as long as I call it something else like Home Security.

You can in theory, but you shouldn't. Nobody should. Because it's stupid.

They shouldn't have even made more than one Home Alone movie in the first place. It's a dumb premise. The first movie outperformed over any expectations, and it's not a "bad" movie, it's certainly fun to watch and it's fine that it exists and everything, but objectively, it's very stupid. It's a one-note joke. "Bad guy fall down go boom." Over and over and over again. Who gives a sh*t? After you've seen the first one, you don't need any more of it.

Dumb. There's nothing there that even remotely suggests 5 or 6 movies worth of material. It's just a Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon dragged out to almost two hours. No need to do it more than once.

Simple things for simple minds. In other words: garbage.

I can think of several ways to stretch things out right now.

(pretending that the existing 3-5 didn't exist)

Home Alone 3 (maybe with a strikethrough of "Alone" in the title and maybe we don't even need the 3): Around 14 now, a 13 year-old girl Kevin has a crush on gets cased by burglars. Some evening when her parents have to go to some kind of gala, they strike. Give her a babysitter who's probably up to no good (you know, sneaking in her boyfriend, whatever) that the burglars just tie up somewhere. Kevin makes her hip to what's coming and helps her prepare and roll with the punches. He learns that girls aren't so icky and we get sort of a team up movie. Alternately, lose the crush angle and make Kevin a little older and make HIM the babysitter.

Home Alone 4: Kevin, an adult now, reads about a string of Sticky/Wet Bandits-like copycat burglaries throughout his new neighborhood. He investigates and finds that Harry and Marv do have some understudies. Kevin outsmarts the new burglars and gloats to Harry and Marv -- still in prison -- at the end. More years are tacked to their sentence, of course, as their understudies join them in prison. This would just be some night, not Christmas again.

Home Alone 5: A rich oil tycoon in a high security mansion is able to make the bank foreclose on Kevin's dad's (who is forced into early retirement) house. His mom, who was counting on Kevin's dad for support, also needs money for a life-saving operation. Kevin, only working a crummy job, isn't able to do much... but he has an idea. He is going to BECOME a burglar. Harry and Marv are out of prison on probation and are actually totally rehabilitated. Kevin begs and begs them to help teach him how to best burgle the rich oil tycoon's mansion. Eventually he is able to appeal to their innate inner burglars, and they at least agree to give him some pointers and blueprints for the mansion and the security system. So one night Kevin strikes the mansion, going after the safe. Turns out there's been lots of security upgrades and traps he wasn't aware of and it becomes a cat and mouse game. At a critical moment, Harry and Marv DO show up to help Kevin and save the day. The rich oil tycoon gets robbed of all of his gold/cash, gets his mansion trashed (possibly burned to the ground or exploded somehow), Kevin's dad's house is saved, Kevin's mom gets her life saving surgery and Harry and Marv get their cut of the monies. Probably stuff about the rich oil tycoon can be revealed throughout the movie making him really seem like a scumbag, so we don't feel bad for him being robbed or anything. Set it on Halloween, just for fun.

Home Alone 6: Further along now, a good amount of time and years later. Kevin's now a doting father (but maybe he's a single father, co-parenting?) and managed to pull his life back together from the abyss. He works in security system design (maybe we see parts of a "day in the life" at his job, and we can see cameos from Harry and Marv as consultants at the same place), making a killing. At this point I don't see why we couldn't just do a requel to the first movie. i.e., Kevin is now the dad and... oops, he somehow "loses" a kid at home the same way his parents did with him twice. Just set this one at Christmas, for symmetry. Early on we establish Kevin has a "rival" at his company, who is older and doesn't take kindly to Kevin being the "golden goose" of the company when he's been working there much longer and doesn't get much credit. Basically he plans to ruin Kevin's life, starting with destroying his house. Additionally, maybe Kevin doesn't "lose" his kid, perhaps his rival kidnaps him while he's boarding an overseas flight to speak at a conference. Kevin's kid manages to foil Kevin's rival and get him busted and sent to jail. Maybe Kevin comes home in time to do the "big final move" to TKO his rival, before the police get there.

The end. We can stop there. I mean, I'd watch those.

Do some people just have a fetish for watching grown men stumble around tripping over toy cars and getting smacked in the face with paint cans?

Because we've seen it already. It's over with. No reason to do it again. Zero.

Well first is still the best but I think it’s fun seeing what new situations they come up with. Nothing wrong with dumb fun. Like I said the new one sounds like it’ll have a higher production again so that’s good.

Changing the holiday to Halloween is a great idea. Have a kid grounded at home for misbehaving and has to miss trick or treating while his family goes out for the night. Thieves dress up as monsters but the kid scares them off by pretending to haunt the house...Home Alone: Trick or Trick.

I know fake haunting has been done but it would make for a nice change up.

If they really wanna bring back Kevin (Culkin) maybe he can inherit a mansion. I’d have to think about it.

Sure there is. It's dumb. And dumbness shouldn't be excused nor encouraged. Definitely not celebrated.

On account of it's dumb.

Ugh, why? It's as pointless as the other Home Alone films over the years. Home Alone 2 was pushing it, and I actually love that movie. :lol: Home Alone 3 tried to go back to the old formula, but it was still dull compared to the previous 2 and was dumb because the kid was purposely left at home. Anything beyond that was just ridiculous. They're like, what, five movies now?

Anyway, back to my point, why in the world would they reboot this film? How fun would it even be? Since parents hover over their kids these days, I couldn't picture a child being left alone. They have smartphones. Parents can track their kids. Thirty years ago, that wasn't case. Kevin being counted over and accidentally left behind was a bit more believable...other parts of the movie weren't (that cop that checked the house should have been fired and the old man with the shovel should have checked in with Kevin's family after saving him from the Wet Bandits to realize that he was "Home Alone").

The only way I could see another Home Alone film working is if it's centered around an adult Kevin and something from there...but not sure what they could actually do, though...

30 anniversary HA now , saw it outdoor roof cinema L.A , early Dec so it was cold......but i had never seen it cinema before

They say Kevin making micro wave dinner is plot fault......not really , maybe he simply didnt get the time to eat it as he knew the thiefs could be dangerous and he maybe thought cops would not show up so handle it himself. Whos to say he didnt eat earlier ?

It is "Home Sweet Home Alone." Buzz from the first couple movies is in it as the same character... which means this is not a reboot at all.



https://www.darkhorizons.com/trailer...et-home-alone/

Looks lame af.

Huh.

Goes through all the same tropes as the original, even recycling the dialogue.

Gender-bends one of the burglars with Erin from The Office, presumably to give the film a softer tone than Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern?

Surprisingly, instead of rebooting an almost primarily white, male cast with non-anglo minority actors/actresses, they actually give them heavy British accents... I figured that was a no-no in Hollywood.

I'll be a little disappointed that this newly canon take on Buzz might torpedo some of the dark fan theories on what Mr. McCallister did for a living and what ultimately became of the kids after the events of the films.

This feels like a rehash of the original. Different family, though. I wonder how they overlooked the kid for this film. For the original, that nosy neighbor kid (about Kevin's size) was counted so they didn't realize he wasn't there and they were rushing and ran all the way to the gate. I don't see this being plausible now, because you have to be at airports these days like a couple of hours in advance, especially if you're doing an international flight. The original, you had to use some suspension of disbelief, but I still don't see how this would work...unless those parents are like Jane's from Daria, nope...couldn't see it working in a modern-day setting.Well, Kevin became Jigsaw. Are people still running with that theory? lol

Knowing me, I might give that movie a watch for curiosity's sake. I really do want to know how this kid got left behind, how they didn't notice he was missing until getting to Tokyo and I'm not buying that we couldn't get on the same plane thing, either. It's not like years ago where you could walk directly to the gate in the airport because of checkpoints. He should've been noticed after they got to the airport or at least after the checkpoint.

I'm pretty sure they're making the new kid look like a kid version of John Hughes on purpose. It's not cute.

I find it neat how passionate Andrew seems to be about the franchise.
I mean it does look lame but isn't the original Home Alone lame as well? Let's be honest here. Also every sequel starting with 2 has been a rehash of the original for the most part. It still looks better than the last 3 movies.

What makes the original 2 movies so memorable? It can't be just nostalgia, can it?, the concept is dumb and 2 is a rehash of the first one but I love them equally.

There's a certain synergy of casting, script, music and delivery in at least that first movie. Think about it. If you swapped out the actors playing the Sticky Bandits, cast someone other than Macaulay for Kevin, or stripped out the music or put in much inferior music... any ONE of those things, I think the bottom would've dropped out.

This looks pretty good actually. Better than the DTV ones. It looks like a theatrical release. It’s using a lot of jokes from the original but maybe it’s just the trailer parts.

Buzz returning is quite surprising but awesome. Makes me wonder if Kevin might cameo or they plan on revisiting him in a later movie.

Except part 4 (it de-ages Kevin and swaps casts) the rest could technically be canon too. How does this exact situation keep happening? :lol:

Edit: Macaulay Culkin tweeted he’s not in this.

I loved Home Alone 2,and it is still one my favorite movies, despite how unnecessary and convoluted it was. Tim Curry was the highlight for me, though. I will admit, the trailer for this newer Home Alone film does seem a bit better than the ones after two. There's even one with French Stewart playing Marv...so awful. ><

In the age of companies "listening" to fans I can definitely see Macaulay Culkin appearing in a sequel to this if this is relatively successful and fans actively ask for Macaulay Culkin to come back. It would still be a kid friendly movie banking purely on nostalgia but whatever I'd eat it up like a consoomer

Nobody asked for this....

No one asked for Home Alone 3 and beyond either. It would seem Disney would realize that the money stopped with 2 along with the creativity.

I mean, seriously. A trailer comes out for "Home/Alone" and you have a down on his luck Kevin McCallister again played by Macaulay Culkin breaking into like an apartment complex, going apartment to apartment burglarizing them while it's supposedly evacuated while being fumigated, with a fiery little girl inside one of them who becomes hip to his plans and puts plans in motion to thwart him. While, by the end, "Redeeming" him.

I'd see that. I think a ton of people would see that, that remember the originals.

Okay, you convinced me. There actually is ONE possibility.

How anything was made after Home Alone 3 is beyond me. Death of a franchise? It was dead after 3 proved it needed Hughes and Culkin. Just stop...