Home Alone 2: Lost in Disney World Script Explained

The Christmas classic Home Alone has spawned numerous sequels, but one that was never realized took the franchise to Disney World. Upon its release in 1990, Home Alone was a monstrous holiday season sleeper hit, making Macaulay Culkin a child star as Kevin McCallister and becoming one of the highest-grossing movies ever made at the time. Its success led to the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, with four subsequent sequels following, including the new Disney+ film, Home Sweet Home Alone.

With the original Home Alone being such a lightning-in-a-bottle type hit, the franchise has had a lot of difficulty recapturing that level of success. Though Home Alone 2 gets more love since its release 1992, a common criticism of the other sequels is that they simply recreate the house full of traps template of the original. As it turns out, there’s one idea for the holiday-themed-Home Alone series that never got off the ground, and it was thought up by none other than Greg Sestero of The Room fame.

In his book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (which was the basis for the movie The Disaster Artist), Sestero reveals that at the age of 12, he wrote a sequel to Home Alone titled Home Alone 2: Lost in Disney World. The story would have involved Kevin McCallister getting on the wrong plane and ending up in Disney World. Once there, Kevin and a neighborhood friend of his named Drake – to be played by Sestero – would run afoul of escaped criminals.

Sestero subsequently mailed his screenplay directly to the movie’s screenwriter John Hughes, and while it was mailed back to him a month later, Hughes included a letter of encouragement for the young Sestero, who says this gesture on Hughes’ part inspired him to pursue a career in acting. Sestero would go on to appear in movies such as Gattaca, Patch Adams, and Retro Puppet Master. He later famously portrayed Mark, the friend of Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) in The Room. While The Room is renowned as one of the worst movies ever made, the film steadily built up a cult following as an unintentional comedy in the ensuing years, and now regularly plays to packed theatrical showings around the world, with both Sestero and writer-director Tommy Wiseau himself frequently attending Q&A’s.

Sestero’s intended story for Home Alone 2 did somewhat end up happening with Kevin boarding the wrong plane. While Sestero’s Home Alone sequel wasn’t realized, it was adding something different to the franchise early on, bringing in a new character in Drake to team up with Kevin, and having them evading new criminals in the theme park setting of Disney World. Sestero’s story sounds like it could’ve been a fun and wacky adventure for Kevin and Drake, Disney World itself providing plenty of fodder for traps for the pursuing criminals. Sestero has since gone on to appear with Wiseau again in the movie Best F(r)iends, along with making appearances on shows like The Haunting of Bly Manor. Greg Sestero’s unproduced script for a Home Alone sequel will always be a tantalizing idea, as it’s easy to imagine what Drake’s Disney World adventure with the series’ main star Kevin could’ve been, and with Sestero so widely known for The Room now, maybe one day he might theoretically even get the chance to make it happen.

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Growing up, Brad developed an innate love of movies and storytelling, and was instantly enamored with the world of adventure while following the exploits of Indiana Jones, Japanese kaiju, and superheroes. Today, Brad channels his thoughts on all manner of movies, from comic book films, sci-fi thrillers, comedies, and everything in between through his writings on Screen Rant. Brad also offers philosophical musings on martial arts and the filmographies of everyone from Jackie Chan to Donnie Yen on Kung Fu Kingdom, where he’s also had the privilege of interviewing many of the world’s great stunt professionals, and hearing plenty of gripping stories on injuries incurred in their line of work and the intricacies of designing the acts of death defiance he first thrilled to as a youngster. When he’s not writing, Brad enjoys going on a ride with the latest action hit or Netflix original, though he’s also known to just pop in “The Room” from time to time. Follow Brad on Twitter @BradCurran.

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