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Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney to star in new 'Home Alone' for Disney+

By Karen Butler   |   Dec. 11, 2019 at 8:30 AM
Actress Ellie Kemper is to co-star in  a new version of "Home Alone" for Disney+. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI "Home Alone" icon Macaulay Culkin arrives for the 46th annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles in 2018. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Jojo Rabbit actor Archie Yates, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt alum Ellie Kemper and Catastrophe star Rob Delaney have landed roles in the Disney+ remake of the 1990 movie Home Alone.

Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell wrote the screenplay for the children's action-comedy, and Dan Mazer is set to direct it, Deadline.com said.

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Variety said details about the plot haven't been revealed yet, but what is known is that Yates will play a new character and Kemper and Delaney will not play his parents.

Macaulay Culkin played Kevin McCallister in the original movie about an 8-year-old boy protecting his Chicago home from burglars at Christmastime after his family accidentally leaves for Paris without him.

Culkin played the role again in 1992's Home Alone: Lost in New York. Three other films in the franchise followed, featuring different casts and characters, but a similar theme.