Home Alone Director Chris Columbus Insists a Remake Would Be a 'Mistake': 'It Should Be Left Alone'

In the property of reboots and remakes galore, there’s 1 beloved classical that whitethorn ne'er spot a caller take: Home Alone. Director Chris Columbus precocious spoke retired astir wherefore helium doesn't privation Hollywood to remake the 1990 film, particularly arsenic it turns 35.

“I deliberation Home Alone truly exists as, not astatine this timepiece, but it was this precise peculiar moment, and you can’t truly recapture that,” the filmmaker told Entertainment Tonight during a caller reddish carpet appearance. “I deliberation it’s a mistake to effort to spell backmost and recapture thing we did 35 years ago. I deliberation it should beryllium near alone.”

Columbus truly deed the nail connected the caput erstwhile it comes to the contented with truthful galore reboots, remakes, and rehashes these days. The magic that was made each those years anterior was thing of lightning successful a vessel for these movies — and it’s truly hard to get the nonstop close mesh of elements that made the archetypal movie worthy of being remade successful the archetypal place.

For his part, prima Macaulay Culkin said past twelvemonth that helium would beryllium funny successful revisiting the franchise and reprising his iconic relation arsenic Kevin McAllister if the wealth was right. “I person ideas, but I don’t person clip to constitute thing with my 2 children,” helium said during a post-screening Q&A.

The archetypal Home Alone film, which was written by '80s fable John Hughes, made Culkin a household sanction and gave the squad astatine 20th Century Fox the greenish airy for a sequel, Home Alone: Lost In New York, conscionable 2 years later. Five years later, the franchise picked up again with a antithetic kid histrion for 1997’s Home Alone 3. Home Alone 4 came successful 2002 and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist arrived 10 years aft that.

The astir caller Home Alone franchise installment, Home Sweet Home Alone, was released successful 2021.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.