Tim Allen Says ‘Home Improvement’ Reboot Is Stuck Because His Onscreen Sons Have ‘Issues’

A Home Improvement reboot is still on Tim Allen‘s wish list, though issues revolving the main cast have become a major hiccup.

Allen told Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 10 that revival talks keep running into a wall because of issues involving the actors who portrayed his TV children in the beloved ’90s sitcom.

“They keep talking about how it could move forward, but they get stuck because there are some personality problems right now with the boys,” Allen said.

“They’ve got their own issues. I always thought it would be cool if it was a story about them. That’s a little challenging right now, to put it mildly.”

On the show, Zachery Ty Bryan played Brad, Jonathan Taylor Thomas played Randy and Taran Noah Smith played Mark.

More than two decades after the show wrapped, all three are dealing with circumstances that could make a reunion complicated.

Bryan, 44, is currently behind bars. Earlier this year, while already serving jail time in California, he was sentenced to 19 months for a separate crime, as reported by People in March. Once he completes that sentence, he faces extradition to Oklahoma in connection with an October 2024 DUI arrest, where he could serve up to five additional years.

Thomas, 44, has only one acting credit in the past two decades, a guest appearance on Allen’s sitcom Last Man Standing.

Smith, 42, has not taken on a single acting role since Home Improvement ended its run in 1999.