Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin and director Chris Columbus reunited for a discussion on the beloved 1990 holiday classic and its sequels. The pair came together to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the 1990 classic with a special screening at the Academy Museum on Saturday.
Chris Columbus discusses the negative impact of Home Alone sequels on the franchise
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Columbus and star Macaulay Culkin gave some candid remarks about the franchise’s downfall over the years.
While discussing the possibility of reuniting for a new Home Alone installment, the pair opened up about the later sequels. Columbus directed the first. The ones that followed were Home Alone 3 (1997), Home Alone 4 (2002), Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012), and Home Sweet Home Alone (2021). Columbus revealed the reason why he is reluctant to return to the franchise. He believes that “it’s been revisited with really bad sequels.”
“Sorry to insult anybody, but they’ve completely f****d it up.” The director expanded, “It started with Home Alone 3, and then it just went downhill from there. Home Alone 3 is sort of the best of the bunch of the bad movies.”
The director also weighed in on some production choices as contributing factors to the sequels’ failure. He criticized the use of wires for filming action sequences, claiming it “gives a false sense of the stunt.” Culkin chimed in with a hilarious remark, joking that the sequels did not work simply because “they didn’t have us.”
Culkin then went on to share his own ideas about a potential new Home Alone movie. “I like the idea that maybe Kevin’s older, that he’s like a widower or something like that. He’s raising his kid, and they don’t really get along; he’s working all the time. It’s almost like a Liar Liar kind of thing,” the actor shared.
However, Columbus said that he will only consider returning for a new sequel if Culkin, along with his original co-stars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, are all on board for a reunion.
Originally reported by Namrata Ghosh on ComingSoon.
