‘Home Alone’ Reboot Casts ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Actor Archie Yates (But Not As A New Kevin McCallister)
Archie Yates, who can currently be seen as the title character’s scene-stealing best friend inJojo Rabbit, has been cast as the young lead of the Home Alone reboot at Disney+.Ellie Kemper(The Office,The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) andRob Delaney(Catastrophe,Deadpool 2) will play his parents. Read what we know about the movie below.Varietybrings word about theHome Alonereboot cast, and they stress that Yates is not playing a new version of Kevin McCallister, the protagonist of the original twoHome Alonemovies.
Interestingly, this film won’t be a straight remake of the original – it has a whole new concept. A report earlier this yearsuggestedthis one will be about a husband and wife who go to war against a 9-year-old boy named Max when the boy steals something from them. A casting call said Max needed to be “wise beyond his years andhas the personality to easily converse with adults” with an “uncanny ability to relentlessly push their buttons,” but also possess “a sense of innocence and a kind heart.” Yates checks all of those boxes – his hilarious work inJojo Rabbitshowed that he has wonderful comedic timing, and I can easily see him playing a little scamp in a project like this. There’s still no word on exactly what he steals, or who may play the husband and wife team with whom he goes to war.
There’s also no word about whether or notMacaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister character may factor into this film at all, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him in a small cameo. (He just reprised the characterlast yearfor a Christmas-themed commercial.)
The script for theHome Alonereboot is comingSaturday NightLivewritersMikey DayandStreeter Seidel, two of the writers of the popular David S. Pumpkins sketch, as well as the creators of the sketches in which Kate McKinnon is abducted by aliens.Dan Mazer(Borat, Who Is America?) is going to direct, andHutch Parker(Logan) andDan Wilson(Patriots Day) are on board as producers. Disney reportedly hopes to start production early next year, which will likely mean we’ll see the final product land on the streaming service in time for Christmas in2020.
