Home Alone remake casts Ellie Kemper in the Catherine O’Hara role

The original Home Alone is a timeless classic. Hard pass on this.

This is the dumbest idea ever! LEAVE HOME ALONE ALONE!

Why is this necessary?

We didn’t buy 20th Century Fox so we could remake the Working Girl R3!

What’s the plot a non-communicative non-binary aspie with a peanut allergy stares at an iPad until xim’s parents return?

Isn't Ellie Kemper a bit young to be the mother of multiple surly tweens?

Isn't Archie a bit fat to be Kevin?

The mother should be older. Bad casting This will sink.

The kid doesn’t have “it”.

Didn't John Hughes attempt to remake Home Alone for the rest of his career? If he couldn't do it...

It's like the remake of Adventures in Babysitting. Horrible. Why can't they leave a classic alone? These studios need to start taking chances on new movies not rehashing what was done better before.

Yeah to Rob Delaney! I really enjoyed his Catastrophe series on Prime. I’ve never seen the Home Alone movies but does the Dad character have much to do?

I like Rob Delaney, but he's far too hairy and too old to be Ellie Kemper's husbear.

I hope they go 21st century and make a Kevin gay, Homo Alone.

I like her, but she is miscast. Plus, nobody needed/wanted this to begin with.

Home Alone has to be one of the most overrated movies in history.

Why?????

Who's playing the moron cousin who can't count? And Uncle Frank's ugly kids?

Hopefully they'll give the role of Marv to Ellie's uncle, Edmund Kemper.

He has experience.

The original Home Alone movies wasted the talent of Catherine O’Hara.

I'd rather the Home Alone remake star Catherine O'Hara as Moira from Schitt's Creek and have to figure out how to do mundane things.

Good casting for mom and dad.

Does Kemper have nudes of some VIP? She isn't funny and isn't even pretty. How does she keep getting work?

No one asked for this. It will flop like the Vacation remake that everyone ignored.

It’s a Disney+ release, it can’t flop, you stupid dumbass.

R20 her “Kevin!” shriek is pretty iconic.

R25 You mean this? Hardly a career defining moment. Unless they play it at the In Memoriam segment at the Oscars after she dies, then I take it back.

Are you fucking old or something, R24? Things on streaming fail all the time, ya stupid dumbass.

Let's give it the Lifetime Steel Magnolias treatment...I'm available.

SERIES on streaming can fail. A made for streaming movie can’t fail. It just sits there, like an old Hispanic woman at McDonalds.

This screams "made for netflix". (yawn)

Home Alone couldn’t work today with smart phones.

Hollywood is lazy as fuck.

Aw, Kevin is a little tub tub. I wonder how much his cheeks will jiggle when he does the shriek face.

When Marlo Thomas remade "It's A Wonderful Life," everyone went, "This is awful, I wonder if the original was this bad."

And that's how it became a classic

[quote]Does Kemper have nudes of some VIP? She isn't funny and isn't even pretty. How does she keep getting work?

I believe her uncle Edmund Kemper is a huge motivator to hire her. Otherwise.....

R31 well it’s actually going to be a double remake of sorts: ‘Home Alone With The Wind’. Set in 1863, Kevin O’Hara is accidentally abandoned at his Aunt PittyPat’s in Atlanta, by his histrionic cousin Scarlet, during Sherman’s invasion. He must use the china the maid Prissy broke, Aunt Pitty’s leftover smelling salts and Uncle Peter’s axe to deter the Union soldiers from getting in the house. He earlier in the film finds a companion who he had been previously frightened of Ms. Belle Whatling, a hooker with a heart of gold who Kevin convinces to go straight. In the end Kevin defeats Sherman and slavery remains legal. Directed by Tarantino, this film is already generating Oscar buzz.

[quote]The kid doesn’t have “it”.

I don't see Archie Yates pulling off being a self-assured prankster, but I was impressed by him JOJO RABBIT. He was so funny in it.

Ellie Kemper is 39 years old, r6. Catherine O'Hara was only 35-36 when the first one was filmed.

More normalization of obesity. Surprised there aren't trans womyn of color in it. Yet.

IF I decide to watch Home Alone it’s not going to be the remake.

Rob Delaney is a hunky beefy DILF. I wish he were nude in more roles.

This will be flop miserably. Not only should certain classics NEVER be touched, they only work because of the time and place in which they exist. No kid could ever be truly home alone in the age of social media, 24/7 internet connectivity, etc. This will suck.

R42 Maybe in this one he will be dead like a Weekend at Bernie’s mash-up?

I’d watch anything with Rob Delaney in it. He’s adorable, funny, doesn’t take himself too seriously and really comes across as a decent bloke.

I find it weird that some consider Kevin's family being assholes a hot take.

Why would anyone want to remake a classic?

Even if everyone on Disney+ watches it, is it still a hit if Disney+ gains no additional subscribers during the period of its release? This originals are the equivalent of a tax write off.

Why?? Why? Why??

They should’ve done a sequel instead - with the original cast. Kevin still at home looking like a total loser. Like Macaulay .

R49 They already did something like that. It was a fake trailer I think.

Ugh, I only watch the first two. Home Alone 3 was about international spies or something stupid like that, Home Alone 4 and 5 are just shitty.

Can we just leave good things alone?

Besides the Home Alone sequels, of which Hughes wrote 2, he also wrote 101 Dalmations, Baby's Day Out, and Flubber all of which contained bumbling criminals who get punished in cartoony ways. The formula continued even after Hughes died, in mostly low budget direct to dvd schlock. I have zero faith that this latest version will be indistinguishable from all the remakes, sequels, and rehashes over the years.

distinguishable

Despite its legacy of bad sequels, it's undeniable how culturally important the film is given how many times it's been attempted over the years. It's one of those films, like Sandlot or Mrs Doubtfire, whose cultural relevance didn't become apparent until many years later.

[quote]Ellie Kemper is 39 years old, [R6]. Catherine O'Hara was only 35-36 when the first one was filmed.

Why do people look so much older back then?

I love Home Alone. I’ve seen it 50 times. Watching those clips give me all the feels. It makes me feel so old. I wasn’t even born when the original came out and now they’re doing a remake? But why is Kevin so fat?

R49 they did.....technically.

Has anyone watched the new series on Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us". Home Alone is one of the movies being featured. Everything I learned about the film was new to me. All the interiors of the house were filmed in a high school gymnasium in Chicago (the same school featured in Ferris Bueller) and an empty pool because the actual house couldn't accommodate the sets. You also learn that Chris Columbus hates Chevy Chase and has no problem saying so in public. Interesting doc for sure. Die Hard, another famous Christmas movie is also covered in the series.

Disney also remade Adventures in Babysitting and nobody batted an eye, just like nobody will care about this one. Most people only have Disney+ for The Mandalorian and will cancel it once this season ends.

This movie was perfect. Why is it being remade?? Are there no original ideas in Hollywood??

Fun fact in the Home Alone 2 Wikipedia page

Fuck me, Rob is beautiful and the ultimate Daddy.