Home Alone Director Chris Columbus Is Not a Fan of the 'Really Bad' Sequels: 'They've Completely F***ed It Up'

Home Alone manager Chris Columbus is portion of a genuinely coagulated harvest of American directors who excelled successful the drama abstraction successful the 80s and 90s — but helium isn’t rather arsenic fond of the comedic efforts that came aft his enactment successful the Home Alone franchise. In fact, helium precocious went arsenic acold arsenic to telephone the different installments “really bad.”

"It's been revisited with truly atrocious sequels," Columbus said portion speaking astatine a screening astatine the Academy Museum recently. "Sorry to insult anybody, but they've wholly f***ed it up. It started with Home Alone 3 and past it conscionable went downhill from there; Home Alone 3 is benignant of the champion of the clump of the atrocious movies."

He didn’t sanction driblet immoderate of the different titles specifically, but aft Home Alone 3, determination were 3 much sequels featuring antithetic protagonists: 2002’s Home Alone 4, 2012’s Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, and 2021’s Home Sweet Home Alone. For Columbus, a large portion of the occupation was successful the wirework, which gives a “false consciousness of the stunt" and makes the franchise’s classical stunts look unnatural.

That said, we could person a truly large Home Alone sequel — if 20th Century Studios would conscionable perceive to archetypal prima Macaulay Culkin, who precocious had an fantabulous thought for a bequest sequel movie that helium shared during a amusement connected the A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin tour.

In his concept, his archetypal character, Kevin McAllister, is an big father. "I'm moving truly hard and I'm not truly paying capable attraction and the kid is benignant of getting miffed astatine maine and past I get locked out,” Culkin explained. “He won't fto maine in… and he's the 1 mounting traps for me.”

Honestly, we deliberation helium mightiness beryllium onto something, truthful 20th Century, you should perceive up. The archetypal Home Alone is disposable to watercourse present connected Disney+.

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