Macaulay Culkin was reportedly spotted at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, to discuss a potential new Home Alone movie.
“I got a tip the other day that there was a very interesting sighting on the Disney lot: Macaulay Culkin was there,” veteran entertainment journalist Matthew Belloni shared on his podcast, “The Town,” on Tuesday, July 28. “He’s talked about having an idea for a new Home Alone, and Disney is, like, salivating.”
Belloni joked that Macaulay’s brother Kieran Culkin should be “the hot one” in Hollywood right now because he just won an Oscar for A Real Pain last year, but the writer claimed Disney is going out of its way for Macaulay, 45, instead.
“They’re offering him another movie — like, he could do his own passion project if he could also do another Home Alone — and they have a good idea,” Belloni reported. “I’ve talked to people who have heard it, and it’s a really good idea for a Home Alone reboot with Macaulay Culkin.”
Belloni, a founding partner of the digital media company Puck, noted that Home Alone is one of the top-streamed franchises every holiday season, so a reboot “would be gigantic” for the studio.
“It may not happen,” Belloni cautioned, “but I think it will. They are courting him like nobody’s business.”
Us has reached out to reps for Macaulay and Walt Disney Studios for comment.
Macaulay rose to fame for his leading role as Kevin McCallister in 1990’s Home Alone, which also starred Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard and Catherine O’Hara. Macaulay returned for the 1992 sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but began a years-long acting hiatus in 1994.
Four more Home Alone films have since been released, most recently 2021’s Home Sweet Home Alone on Disney+, but the franchise has struggled to match the success that it once had with Macaulay as its lead actor.
During a 35th anniversary screening of Home Alone last year, Macaulay — who most recently appeared on the TV series Fallout and Running Point — told the audience that he was not “completely allergic” to the idea of reprising his role as Kevin.
“I kind of had this idea [for a new sequel],” he revealed at the time, per Variety. “I’m either a widower or a divorcé. 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. [My son] won’t let me in … and he’s the one setting traps for me.”
