Ryan Reynolds At Center Of ‘Home Alone’ Revise; Augustine Frizzell To Helm R Comedy ‘Stoned Alone’
EXCLUSIVE: Fox has found an inspired way to tap back into the spirit of one of the studio’s all time grossing comedies,
Home Alone. In fact, the new take sounds like a blend of that
John Hughes-scripted family film, with the irreverence, hard R rating, and star of
Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds is attached to produce
Stoned Alone, which is in development at Fox. Augustine Frizzell is set to direct.
Kevin Burrows and
Matt Mider wrote the script from an idea by Fox exec
Matt Reilly.
Frizzell is a new comic voice. She directed
Never Goin’ Back, which premiered at Sundance and will be released by A24, and she’s directing
Euphoria for HBO. The writers scripted for Netflix the comedy that had been called
Eggplant Emoji, but is now called
The Package. They signed on right after Reilly pitched them.
The original
Home Alone was released in holiday season, 1990. Rescued in turnaround from Warner Bros — execs fought with writer/producer John Hughes over a $2 million budget disagreement — by newly minted Fox chief Joe Roth. It grossed an out-sized $476 million, spawned two sequels, made a star of
Macaulay Culkin, and it was years before Warner Bros or pretty much any major studio put a project in turnaround again, for fear of embarrassment. Chris Columbus directed the original.
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