The next morning, Ian had hope bubbling inside him as he walked down to the set, watching everyone moving here and there with smiles plastered on their faces.

"Good morning, sir!"

"Good morning, Ian!"

"Guys, Ian is here!"

Ian waved at the people who were excited about his entrance and kept going until he saw Mason and Raelynn talking.

"Ian!" Mason said and nodded just to acknowledge his presence.

Ian nodded back.

"Today is going to be so fucking interesting," Ian muttered as he took his notebook and pen out.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was an interesting movie as it follows Home Alone 1 but in an entirely different setting.

With a budget of 28 million dollars, the movie production was prepped as however, Ian demanded it to be.

There were several things from the original movie, in Ian's previous world that he frowned upon.

In the original movie, from the budget, almost a sixth of that went straight to Macaulay Culkin who was paid $4.5 million to reprise the role of Kevin McCallister.

No jokes on it, because that remained the biggest salary ever paid to a child actor for a single film, and a huge increase in salary for the 12-year-old who earned $110,000 for the original.

Trust the narrator, with that kind of money in the bank, he ain't a traveling coach…

"I've got some stuff to discuss the angles, shall we?" Raelynn walked toward Ian, and he nodded and followed her immediately.

They reached the table and started to discuss the scenes that they had planned for the day.

Back to the story of the original Home Alone 2 movie, much of Home Alone 2: Lost In New York was shot on location at the Plaza Hotel in a Central Park suite.

The owner of the hotel at the time made several demands upon the production to sign off on using it. One was to write him into the film.

The owner was Trump, and Ian choked in his saliva when he first got to know it from the memory library—he then composed himself thinking that he was transmigrated, so why can't a powerful man can't demand to be in a movie?

Concerning the locations, Ian was smart. He took a break of two days during the three weeks before and went on searching for perfect spots to decide the set.

With the shooting process moving on, we'll get to know more about tactics that Ian might use in the original movie, but the endpoint is that Home Alone 2: Lost In New York earned over $173 million in revenue in the United States and $359 million worldwide, against that aforementioned budget of $28 million.

Ian's goal was to surpass that milestone.

"...No, that's when he enters first, so I want to highlight him, but at the same time don't make it too obvious, you get what I meant?" Ian asked Raelynn.

"Right. How about the lightning?"

"Let's decide it on the set, not too dim, Niko will help you out on that," Ian said and stood up.

"Thank you,"

"No problem,"

Ian walked away from her, and then looked around at where he was.

After taking everything in, he was ready; so was everyone.

Taking the announcing horn to his hand, he shouted,

"Who is ready for Kevin to be up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps?!"

"Let's start!"

"Yay!!"

"Coming!"

The set's cheers and spirit lifted the director's mood as well.-

“Where’s Adam?” Ian asked seeing everyone prepare.

It was the first day of the shooting, and the set was inside the house; the McCallister house.

The house was decorated with Christmas decorations. The outside of the house had bulbs in various places, and on the inside, Ian commanded to follow the same thing, green and red.

“He went out to get his favorite drink, said will be in five minutes.”

“Okay, let’s start in a few, is everything alright, uncle?” Ian asked looking at Mason.

“Oh yeah, just it hits nostalgia, with everyone back at the house. This just feels like back at the day, when you first got into directing,” Mason said with a warm smile.

“Haha… the feeling is mutual, when Adam gets here back, I’d just feel the same, but the movie should have a vast difference from my perspective. Two years, I’ve made movies left and right, so the improvement should be visible,” Ian said.

Ian’s memory library provided everything for him in the last two years. The director notes, things that had happened in the originals, the script as a fresh package, and even the soundtracks.

“Hmm… Let’s see how this would turn out,” Mason said and walked to his chair.

Ian nodded and sat in the chair which was labeled as ‘director’.

For a while, Adam and his mother walked hand-in-hand for the set. Adam was looking just like Kevin from the first movie.

Although he had gotten a bit taller, Ian knew the adjustments were nothing that a camera and the editing couldn’t do.

[...]

“Is everyone ready? I want to see the hype in here, the walking patterns, the urge, the feeling of ‘run run run... I want to see it all! And I just want you all to imagine as if you guys are naturally in a house of a chaotic mess. Where people don't know where their belongings are, are we on the same page? Yes?”

The kids and the other actors nodded.

“Let’s take a shot and see those skills. Quiet on the set!” Ian said and everyone went silent.

“Camera!”

“Set!”

“Sound!”

“Set!”

“Camera rolling!:

“Action!” Right after Ian’s command, everyone started walking and running around.

“Nobody can order my pizza!” an old man who was acting as a family member walked towards the camera with a disappointed look on his face.

“Where are my golf balls?!”

“You know why? Cause I’m the only guy…”

“CUT!” Ian shouted and widened his eyes.

“Woah Woah Woah guys! Calm down, everyone! I heard just not more than four dialogues, and the entire thing looked… Scripted, which it is…” Ian said and Buzz shrugged down.

Ian thought about it for a little while. A moment of silence passed between all of them.

"So, let's do something, everyone sits down wherever you are, please give them chairs."

A help hand man walked in with chairs immediately and gave them chairs.

The entire set sat in the hallway of the house, and some took the steps.

"The opening of the movie is, really, really important. It shows what Home Alone is really about.

The family, the siblings, how messy it all is. And how noisy it can get when a family is filled with a lot of people. And I'm aware how every one of you knows about it, but right now we'll take thirty minutes to go through the dialogues.

Read what's in there, and then add your dialogues. Let it all get messy," Ian said and jumped off from the chair he stood in.

Everyone nodded and got their scripts to read.

Ian understood from their first attempt that this movie would become as natural as possible at least in the sense of acting—not action.

-

9.08 pm

Mansion of Ian.

Ian walked inside his bedroom with lots of thoughts in his mind.

Walking to his bed, he sighed and propped down in it.

He took the laptop that was on his bed and opened it to read the critics of Marriage Story because the movie was already in theatres.

[IAM - IT'S A MOVIE]

MARRIAGE STORY.

DIRECTED BY IAN RENNER.

PRODUCED BY THE RENNER STUDIO.

⭐⭐⭐☆☆/5 RATINGS

@Movie.Lunatic ⭐⭐☆☆☆

The performances are great, but the screenplay doesn't hold together very well for me. Liam's character is almost completely lovable -- really, his only shortcoming seems to be that he's just too naive about what divorce entails. By the 10th time he gets blind-sided by something obvious, like the spouse "interviewing" all the most qualified lawyers in town to reduce his pool of potential representation, I could almost see why his apparent lack of basic insight might make him an impossible mate. It's totally unclear how he could possess the intellect needed to run a theater company and win a genius grant.

@Solo.Fan.forlife ⭐☆☆☆☆

I wished this film, enhanced or contributed uniquely to the film industry, I believe that it didn't add value to the industry and is another waste of money and time. There was nothing remarkable about it. Furthermore, I expected more from the plot. It was cliché, to say the least.

As the minutes passed by, nearing the end of this over 2-hour film, I kept expecting something that wouldn't make me feel as though I somehow wasted my time watching it, and I never got that. I wasted my time watching this film and felt as though the movie was unnecessarily drawn out and didn't need to last that long.

@Home.Alone ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

I'm a huge fan of Ian Renner, and any movie he directs. To be honest, Renner Studio had done a lot in the past.

@Broken.Story ⭐☆☆☆☆

I haven’t even watched the movie, and I'm not planning to. Gave a star just because Ian hadn’t been my favorite person on the internet right now.

@Movie.Creator0 ⭐☆☆☆☆

Ian became a woman abuser in my eyes. He dumped a woman with a kid, and I see no use in watching a movie about Marriage. So, no thanks.

But recently, I don't think it's going too well. With much excitement for the movie, I went ahead and bought tickets for the first show, but eh, I'm kinda disappointed.

Ian Renner should get his life together IMO. Sad, but I don't recommend this movie. Three stars for effort.

-

As soon as Ian saw the comments, he turned the laptop off.

He knew what all of the reviews were about, and he wasn't pleased.

They were all due to how bad his reputation is currently.

His only prayer before going to bed was the next court hearing, where everyone would be able to know the truth—which he thought that the kid shouldn't be his.