{"id":69939,"date":"2025-08-15T23:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69939\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:19:06","slug":"chris-columbus-suggests-not-rebooting-home-alone-years-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69939\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Columbus suggests not rebooting Home Alone, years too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask director Chris Columbus, Home Alone should be exempt from Hollywood\u2019s constant IP mining. \u201cI think Home Alone really exists as, not at this timepiece, but it was this very special moment, and you can\u2019t really recapture that,\u201d Columbus told Entertainment Tonight (via <\/a>Variety<\/a>). \u201cI think it\u2019s a mistake to try to go back and recapture something we did 35 years ago. I think it should be left alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apparently, no one asked Chris Columbus because they actually made a Home Alone reboot four years ago. Home Sweet Home Alone starred Jo Jo Rabbit\u2018s Archie Yates as a rich kid who stole a doll at an open house and then tortures the poor couple who try to obtain it back from him. In her C review<\/a> of the straight-to-streaming Disney+ movie, The A.V. Club\u2018s Katie Rife called it \u201cone of those 21st-century sequels that cares more about inserting Easter eggs for the original film than it does providing similar entertainment value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Columbus himself directed the beloved first film and its sequel (which featured that infamous Trump cameo<\/a>), while Raja Gosnell helmed the third film; all of those were penned by John Hughes. Since then, there were two more straight-to-TV Home Alones before Home Sweet Home Alone, which was directed by Dan Mazer (Dirty Grandpa) and written by Saturday Night Live\u2018s Mikey Day and Streeter Sidell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much like his feelings on Home Alone, Columbus has similarly said it would be \u201cimpossible\u201d to do another Mrs. Doubtfire without Robin Williams (the star of the Broadway show was \u201csupposedly very energetic and phenomenal. But he\u2019s no Robin. Robin was one-of-a-kind,\u201d he told SF Gate<\/a> in 2021). \u201cIn this version of Hollywood that we live in, everybody is remaking everything, and rebooting everything. I mean, there\u2019s a Home Alone reboot coming out. What\u2019s the point?\u201d Columbus said shortly before the premiere of Home Sweet Home Alone (via <\/a>CinemaBlend<\/a>). \u201cThe movie exists, let\u2019s just live with the movie that existed. There\u2019s no point in us remaking The Wizard of Oz, there\u2019s no point in any of us remaking the classic films. Make something original, because we need more original material. So, no. No point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That said, he\u2019s not against all reboots. The director of the first two Harry Potter films thinks the upcoming television reboot is a \u201cspectacular idea, because there\u2019s a certain restriction when you\u2019re making a film,\u201d he told <\/a>People<\/a>. \u201cThe fact that they have the leisure of [multiple] episodes for each book, I think that\u2019s fantastic. You can get all the stuff in the series that we didn\u2019t have an opportunity to do \u2026 all these great scenes that we just couldn\u2019t put in the films.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask director Chris Columbus, Home Alone should be exempt from Hollywood\u2019s constant IP mining. \u201cI think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}