Ryan Reynolds Spearheads ‘Home Alone’ Riff-Off ‘Stoned Alone’

Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds is developing a re-imagining of Home Alone, the 90’s classic film. Stoned Alone, a riff of Home Alone, is about a man who misses the plane and gets stoned. During his all-time high, he becomes paranoid that people are breaking into his home. On top of his “me time,” he balances smoking pot, and fighting people he later on realizes are far from his imagination.

Stoned Alone: Home Alone Re-Imagined

Stoned Alone will remind everyone of the Fox classic that starred child actor Macaulay Culkin. In Home Alone, Culkin played an 8-year-old boy who was left at home by his family for their holiday trip. It grossed $476 million and produced two sequels under the same name. The film shot Culkin into fame as one of the most prominent child stars of that decade.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Reynolds will work with Fox under his Maximum Effort production banner to produce the stoner-comedy film. Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider wrote the script for Stoned Alone, with Never Goin’ Back Director Augustine Frizzell at the helm. Maximum Effort’s George Dewey will also executive produce alongside Reynolds and Fox. Dewey also produced Deadpool, with a total combined gross of $1.5 million worldwide.

Frizzell’s Never Goin’ Back premiered in this year’s Sundance Festival last January, which is scheduled for an August release from A24. Frizzell is also working with HBO with their new high-school drama Euphoria. Meanwhile, Burrows and Mider are working together to write a new Netflix series called The Package.

Meanwhile, Reynolds is set to star in the upcoming Detective Pikachu movie. Legendary Entertainment bought the film’s franchise in 2016 during the hype of mobile gaming app Pokemon Go. The film moved from Warner Brothers to Universal Studios but will still keep the May 10, 2019 release date.