Home Alone is finally returning to the screens in 2021 with Disney+'s upcoming release of "Home Sweet Home Alone". 

The reboot was announced in 2019, but due to schedule changes and production delays due to the global pandemic, it was pushed further than expected. 

Back in 1990, Home Alone was first premiered on screen making up to $500 million worldwide on an $18 million budget. 

The long-awaited return is around the corner, and here are all the details. 

Home Sweet Home Alone has a Christmas theme but will be available for subscribers well ahead of the holidays on November 12, 2021, in the United States. 

Disney+'s Home Alone Reboot Cast

Home Sweet Home Alone will star Archie Yates as lead protagonist Max Mercer. The rest of the cast is filled with veteran comedians, including Rob Delaney (Catastrophe, Deadpool 2), Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live, Kenan), Chris Parnell (30 Rock, Rick and Morty), Ellie Kemper (The Office, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Pete Holmes, Timothy Simons, Aisling Bea, Ally Maki, and Andy Daly. 

The Home Sweet Home Alone script is written by Streeter Seidell and SNL’s Mikey Day.

In addition to all the newcomers, Disney’s Home Alone reboot will reportedly feature cameos from Macaulay Culkin, who played original protagonist Kevin McCallister in the first two movies, and Devin Ratray, who played Kevin’s older brother Buzz. 

The two actors are set to play their old characters all grown up, but it remains to be seen how exactly the McCallisters will fit into the story of the new movie.

Nevertheless, it’s great to see both Culkin and Ratray getting modern recognition for their efforts directed at the franchise, and bringing them back is an excellent move that bodes well for Home Sweet Home Alone.

Back in Time - The Story Details

Few details have been revealed for Disney’s Home Alone reboot's setup, but the basic outline of the story has come out over time. Similar to the original film, Home Sweet Home Alone will follow a young boy – in the case, Yates’ Max Mercer – who’s left behind by his family over the holidays and subsequently must send off burglars from robbing his house. 

However, it won't be telling the exact same story as the original film. Disney has revealed that the villains of the new movie will actually be a married couple and that they infiltrate the Mercer home not just for a general robbery, but to steal a valuable family heirloom. 

It sounds like the Home Alone reboot will include opportunities for some thematic parallels between the Mercer’s and the intruding family.

That said, Home Alone fans can expect the series most famous narrative trappings to return, which include Christmas carols, family drama, kids acting like adults, and of course, hordes of homemade traps and hazards to hinder and potentially maim the film’s villains.