Disney plans to remake Home Alone

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Disney Is Remaking <em>Home Alone</em> for Its New Disney+ Streaming Service (and People Are Not Happy)

Disney is making the most of its properties and planning to remake a handful of beloved films for its new streaming service, including 'Home Alone' and 'Night at the Museum.'

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This year alone, Disney had already remade The Lion King, Aladdin, and Dumbo as live-action releases, and remakes of Mulan, The Little Mermaid, and Lady and the Tramp are on the horizon. In March, Disney closed a $71 billion deal and acquired 20th Century Fox’s assets, too. They'll be putting those assets to good use beginning November 12, which is when the company will launch its first streaming service, Disney+. The service will eventually include 7500 TV episodes and 400 movies from both Disney and Fox, and now the company is set on remaking other beloved classics specifically for its streaming audiences.

Deadline reports that the service will remake Home Alone, Fox's beloved 1990 megahit that grossed more than $400 million worldwide (and spawned a handful of sequels). Disney hasn’t stated what shape the remake will take—Will it be a TV show? Who will star?—but Disney CEO Bob Iger said it will be "reimagined" for "a new generation."

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Why, just why?

 

[Clara D.]

Why, just why?

There is nothing new under the Sun (in Hollywood).

 

[Sid]

Why, just why?

To gain the almighty extra Buck or two.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Interestingly, Disney cancelled dang near everything original that was on 20th Century Fox's stove, putting it all into turnaround. Spielberg's "West Side Story" is safe because Spielberg, but only a couple of other movies are still gonna be made.

"Turnaround" means the owning studio has canceled the project but another studio can basically buy it for the price of what the owners already spent on development before it was canceled, plus a cherry of course.

 

[Ghost Pepper]

I guess that the New Mutants movie is still coming out since it's already done. Last I heard it was coming out April 3, 2020.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Any remake without Macaulay Culkin is automatically better than the original.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

They need to use the actress who plays Eleven. As Eleven. Home Alone with psychic powers.

 

[OrinB]

It’s a way for Disney to exploit another kids childhood for the sake of entertainment. Good luck to the poor sods they choose!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Any remake without Macaulay Culkin is automatically better than the original.

lol, mean

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

There is nothing new under the Sun (in Hollywood).

I know, but I still don't get it, sorry.

I do understand that Hollywood has the knack of recreating successful foreign movies with American actors, because the domestic audience just does not really much like dubbed movies. At least that's what I've been hearing all the time.

So, for example, this:

Became that:

And while Hanks is for sure a good actor, the whole remake was mediocre at best. As most American remakes of foreign movies turn out to be anyway. Then again imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery, which means that the original was quite well done.

So let's just ignore now such remakes. I can also understand what Disney is right now doing with real life remakes of classic cartoons; it still has its own artistic appeal. The idea behind is to appeal to a younger, newer generation in order to stay relevant; they need to reseed themselves into young people so that stay fond on Disney for the next few decades, or so.

But redoing movies like "Home alone" is for me just uncreative; even if there might be new points being made in the move. Since the whole industry in Hollywood at the moment has such a hard-on for recycling big, old franchises and movies this in the end is nothing more than the confession that they don't have any new ideas any longer, that there's a creative dilemma. But you can only remake so many movies, before the audience becomes fed up and demands new ideas and takes again.

 

[Free]

But you can only remake so many movies, before the audience becomes fed up and demands new ideas and takes again.

I think you're woefully overestimating the average media consumer.

 

[Noodles]

Maybe it will be a series. Kevin's parents take a vacation every week and, "oh darn, we forgot Kevin again!". Maybe we shouldn't have 50 kids.

"Oh no! Those rascal burglars have returned again!"

Oh, better yet, make it a TV MA Edgy streaming show. It turns out Kevin is a serial killer who lures burglars to his maze of death.

 

[Clara D.]

Oh, better yet, make it a TV MA Edgy streaming show. It turns out Kevin is a serial killer who lures burglars to his maze of death.

I'd watch that

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

"Remimagined for 'a new generation'"?

So, basically, in this upcoming version, Kevin's parents are arrested at the airport and Kevin is placed in foster care? Not quite sure where the burglars fit in, though.

 

[Clara D.]

"Remimagined for 'a new generation'"?

So, basically, in this upcoming version, Kevin's parents are arrested at the airport and Kevin is placed in foster care? Not quite sure where the burglars fit in, though.

Replace the burglars with ICE agents.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

"Remimagined for 'a new generation'"?

So, basically, in this upcoming version, Kevin's parents are arrested at the airport and Kevin is placed in foster care? Not quite sure where the burglars fit in, though.

Poor parents would lose custody for that. Rich white parents just made an honest mistake.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I think you're woefully overestimating the average media consumer.

The average media consumer will both demand new things, but then not go bother to see the things they aren't familiar with.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I don't get this.

I totally get why Disney makes CG and liveaction remakes of its animated movies. You want to try the same things using newer and awesomer-looking technology. They don't always work well, and one could question the wisdom of course, but at least the motivation makes sense.

What on Earth can be done with Home Alone, though? Like genuinely. It's already live-action, so there's no new composition technology to use. Same story with a different kid, and/or different silly traps? That's literally Home Alone 3, which has already been made. Same kid (with a different actor obviously) and an "updated" family with domestic problems? That's literally Home Alone 4, which has also already been made. Completely-different-but-not scenario, with a new kid who thinks he's setting traps for ghosts that are haunting his house and accidentally foils a burglary attempt? Guess what, that's Home Alone 5. I haven't seen any of these btw, I just read the synopses on Wiki. I can see continuing to make pointless and pandering DTV sequels for this tired franchise but investing money in an actual feature?

 

[Noodles]

Wait wait wait.

I think I knew there was a 3rd movie, but are you telling me there are 5 Home Alone films?