Many people say that time heals all wounds, but for some, so does work. If you find the right project and pour yourself into it, the gratification can overflow, helping you move through pain, loss, and other matters that haunt the soul. That may be why the filmmaker of The Family Stone, Thomas Bezucha, is busy writing a sequel to help honor the untimely passing of Diane Keaton, who played Sybil Stone in the 2005 original.
“I’ve been haunted by the loss of Sybil for months now while I worked on it, and so this was a blow on a tender bruise already,” Bezucha said during a CNN interview. “Mentally, I’ve been spending time in that house where I’ve been missing her for a while already.”
On that note, Bezucha says he wants to “honor [Keaton] even more” and “do a good job by the rest of the cast.”
In The Family Stone, an uptight businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family’s annual Christmas celebration and finds that she’s a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
In addition to Keaton, The Family Stone stars Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Brian White, and Elizabeth Reaser. It’s too early to tell who among the cast would return for the sequel. Nobody has officially signed on, and the sequel has not been officially greenlit by Disney, which acquired the film’s original distributor, 20th Century Fox, in 2019. However, Bezucha expressed that he only wants to return with the original cast.
The legendary Diane Keaton died in October after falling ill with pneumonia. “She looked radiant… like the sun itself,” one witness recalled softly. “Then she just… fell. It didn’t seem real.” Moments before she collapsed, Diane turned to her daughter and whispered, “I’m fine, sweetheart.”
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