--- title: Macaulay Culkin Will Do a Home Alone Remake on One Condition description: The original 'Home Alone' star isn't ruling out another sequel, according to a comment on Reddit — but his requirement might surprise you. canonical: https://time.com/5124998/macaulay-culkin-reddit/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-30T19:27:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:12.970Z og:title: Macaulay Culkin Will Do a Home Alone Remake on One Condition og:description: It would be a very different kind of movie og:url: https://time.com/5124998/macaulay-culkin-reddit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf873103507b17ff6/6988b3867cdbac3e5dd56a2c/161220_grossing_homealone2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: 161220_Grossing_HomeAlone2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Macaulay Culkin Will Do a Home Alone Remake on One Condition twitter:description: It would be a very different kind of movie twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf873103507b17ff6/6988b3867cdbac3e5dd56a2c/161220_grossing_homealone2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Macaulay Culkin Will Do a _Home Alone_ Remake on One Condition > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 30, 2018 7:27 PM UTC  No. 4: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the sequel to the classic Christmas movie, follows a young boy who is separated from his family at the holidays after boarding the wrong flight. The 1992 flick collected $173.6 million at the box office. No. 4: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the sequel to the classic Christmas movie, follows a young boy who is separated from his family at the holidays after boarding the wrong flight. The 1992 flick collected $173.6 million at the box office. MovieStillsDB  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 30, 2018 7:27 PM UTC To many, [_Home Alone_](http://time.com/5027509/home-alone-theory/) is the greatest holiday movie of all time. It certainly has endured: the 1990 family film starring a young [Macaulay Culkin](http://time.com/4414537/mila-kunis-macaulay-culkins/) as the preternaturally clever Kevin McAllister remains a classic in the wintertime months. And Culkin himself, although he rarely acts these days, has remained a cult favorite figure thanks to starring turns in movies like _Saved!_ and his friendship with [goddaughter Paris Jackson.](http://time.com/4606751/macaulay-culkin-paris-jackson-pedicure/) To promote his latest endeavor, a podcast intriguingly named “Bunny Ears,” Culkin hopped on Reddit to do an AMA. The most important bit of information culled from this exchange is that another _Home Alone_ sequel is not something he’s entirely ruling out — but he has a guideline. When asked if he would “ever do a remake” of the movie, his response was, “Only if it was set in the woods, ala \[sic\] Rambo.” (_Rambo_, of course, was the iconic [1980s film series](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/) starring Sylvester Stallone surviving in the jungles of a war-torn Myanmar, back when it was Burma.) It’s hard to imagine little Kevin McAllister figuring out a way to evade his enemies in the woods — he’s better known for his toy-powered booby traps than outdoorsy ones — but it would make for an interesting evolution of the concept. 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