The mouse house is reviving one of the biggest holiday classics imaginable.
Following Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox, the studios gained the rights to the Home Alone series and quickly got to work. Now, we’re mere months away from the series reboot, Home Sweet Home Alone, over on Disney+, and better yet, we finally have a first look at the comedy-star-filled cast. The Office’s Ellie Kemper and Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson are set to star as the antagonists in the upcoming film.
Home Sweet Home Alone follows the clever and mischievous Max Mercer (Archie Yates) after he’s left, well, home alone. While his entire family is off on vacation in Japan, Max is left to defend the family home from a married couple (Kemper and Thompson) intent on retrieving a priceless heirloom the Mercer family possesses. Of course, chaos and zaniness ensue and Max is forced to think outside of the box in order to keep the invaders out of his home. While this good ol’ fashioned Home Alone romp already sounds like a good time, what I’m most excited for is seeing just how Disney manages to make all this magic happen in a world filled with way more technology than the one we saw in the Macaulay Culkin films.
Dan Mazer, the director behind Dirty Grandpa and I Give It a year, will be directing, while Saturday Night Live star Mikey Day and writer Streeter Seidell have teamed up to write a script based on Hughes’ original screenplay. Home Sweet Home Alone is scheduled to hit Disney+ on November 12.
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