Stoned Alone: Home Alone remake to centre on stoner who spends Christmas getting high
Paranoid on weed, the protagonist will think he hears people in the house
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Your support makes all the difference.The nostalgia around Home Alone is palpable, and Fox and Ryan Reynolds have found an irreverent and ingenious way of reimagining the classic movie.
Reynolds will produce Stoned Alone for the studio, an R-rated comedy set to be directed by Augustine Frizzell from a script by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider (Netflix's The Package).
The plot synopsis, according to Deadline:
'[Stoned Alone] centres around a twenty-something weed growing loser who misses the plane for his holiday ski trip. He makes the best of things by getting high. Paranoia sets in and he believes he hears someone break into his house. Turns out thieves have broken in. Fully stoned and fueled by paranoia, he tries to thwart the thieves and defend his castle.'
There is no news on casting as of yet, including on who will follow Macaulay Culkin as the new besieged protagonist.
The remake of sorts could be in cinemas in time for Home Alone's 20th anniversary, the Chris Columbus-directed original having been released during the holiday season in 1990.
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