The filmmaker directed the 1990 movie starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old forced to spend Christmas alone after his family accidentally left for a holiday without him. Columbus also directed the sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, released in 1992. He is also known for being behind the camera of the first two Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

In the first Home Alone movie, Columbus directed Goodfellas actor Joe Pesci as Harry, one of the two burglars targeting Kevin’s house.

Chris Columbus On Working With Joe Pesci

In Netflix docs-series The Movies That Made Us, Columbus revealed what Pesci told him about the way he normally reads scripts. The second episode of season one, released in 2019, is focused on Home Alone.

“Joe said to me, ‘Anytime I get a script, if it’s not a Scorsese script… The only way I can read is if I add ‘f**k’ every three or four words,’” Columbus said.

Of course, Pesci had to hold his tongue for Home Alone, which scored a PG rating for distribution.

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Home Alone Sequel At Disney Plus Is 'A Waste Of Time' For Columbus

A new installment in the Home Alone franchise is underway at Disney+. Culkin is poised to reprise his role as Kevin, with the story being a continuation of the first two chapters. Principal photography beginning in February this year. Production was halted in March due to the current Covid-19 pandemic and has resumed this month.

Columbus opened up on his involvement in the sequel in an interview with Insider. The filmmaker didn’t mince his words as he said that nobody got in touch with him about the reboot. He called it “a waste of time” as far as he is concerned.

“What's the point? I'm a firm believer that you don't remake films that have had the longevity of Home Alone. You're not going to create lightning in a bottle again. It's just not going to happen,” he said.

“So why do it? It's like doing a paint-by-numbers version of a Disney animated film — a live-action version of that. What's the point? It's been done. Do your own thing. Even if you fail miserably, at least you have come up with something original.”

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