Fallout Season 2 Will Feature a Familiar Face from Home Alone
A full 34 years have passed since the release of Home Alone, but most movie-goers still remember Macaulay Culkin as the plucky lil’ kid that defended his home from the Wet Bandits. It makes sense, seeing as how Home Alone was an instant classic when it hit theaters and is still considered one of the greatest Christmas films of all time. So, with 2024’s own festive season around the corner, what better time to check in on little Kevin?
It’s a Christmas miracle, but it seems like Culkin is going to be back on screens soon enough! He’s been extremely sparing in picking acting roles over the last two decades, understandable, given how he was one of, if not the most, prolific and recognizable child stars of the 1990s. It’s been two years since his last on-screen appearance, a scene-stealing cameo on HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones. Now, Culkin is set to return to the streaming scene with Amazon Prime’s Fallout.
Video game adaptations for film and television have a checkered track record, so Fallout becoming one of the biggest sci-fi hits of 2024 took fans and critics alike by surprise. Fallout is based on the video game series of the same name. However, the show did not borrow any major storylines from any of the video game franchise’s installments. Instead, it treated the game’s world, one where nuclear war has annihilated human civilization and society has devolved into chaos, as a playground for its own inventive storytelling.
So, with Deadline reporting that Culkin has joined Fallout’s cast for Season 2, it begs the question: What is Kevin McAllister doing in the post-apocalyptic wasteland?
The sources in Deadline’s story did not provide too many details about Culkin’s upcoming role, but what they did share is definitely intriguing. All we know about Macaulay Culkin in Fallout Season 2 so far is that he will play a recurring character that has been described as a “crazy genius” type.
Fallout fans have already begun speculating about what character Culkin will be playing, looking for possible contenders from among the characters in the video games. However, fans of Home Alone already know that if anyone deserves the crazy genius tag, it’s Kevin McAllister. That’s what it takes to fight off two determined burglars when your family disappears for the holidays! If Culkin’s Fallout role channels some of that madcap energy, the next season of Fallout could get very exciting, very quick.
