{"id":294535,"date":"2025-11-20T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294535\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:22:10","slug":"the-family-stone-writer-director-penning-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294535\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Family Stone&#8217; Writer\/Director Penning Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter 20 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-family-stone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-family-stone\" data-tag=\"the-family-stone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Family Stone<\/a> is due for a big holiday reunion as the cast and crew mourn the death of onscreen matriarch <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/diane-keaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Diane Keaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/thomas-bezucha\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thomas-bezucha\" data-tag=\"thomas-bezucha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Bezucha<\/a>, who wrote and directed the 2005 holiday film, recently revealed that he\u2019s penning a sequel to the ensemble classic, after Keaton (who starred as Sybil Stone) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/diane-keaton-dies-79-1236582540\/\">died at age 79<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve 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,\u201d Bezucha told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/19\/entertainment\/family-stone-sequel-thomas-bezucha-diane-keaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cMentally, I\u2019ve been spending time in that house where I\u2019ve been missing her for a while already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Keaton\u2019s death, Bezucha wants to get the sequel right \u201cdo a good job by the rest of the cast,\u201d noting he wants to \u201chonor her even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile nobody has officially signed on to reprise their roles, he noted that he reached out to the original cast, all of whom had a positive response to news of a sequel. \u201cI\u2019m not interested in the Brady family reunion without the original Jan,\u201d said Bezucha.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MCDFAST_FE004.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"679\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRachel McAdams, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/diane-keaton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_diane-keaton\" data-tag=\"diane-keaton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Keaton<\/a> and Sarah Jessica Parker in \u2018The Family Stone\u2019 (2005) (20th Century Fox Film Corp.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn The Family Stone, Sybil and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) host their adult kids (Dermot Mulroney, Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and Elizabeth Reaser) for the holidays, as she prepares to tell the family about her terminal illness. The visit is complicated by Everett\u2019s (Mulroney) plans to propose to his high-strung girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), of whom Sybil does not approve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Keaton\u2019s death on Oct. 11, her family revealed that she <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/diane-keaton-cause-of-death-1236587811\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">died of pneumonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 20 years, The Family Stone is due for a big holiday reunion as the cast and crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,10446,100729,75,132850,132851,132852,132853],"class_list":{"0":"post-294535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-diane-keaton","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-holiday-films","15":"tag-the-family-stone","16":"tag-the-family-stone-2","17":"tag-thomas-bezucha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}