Luke Wilson is sharing an update on The Family Stone sequel that Tom Bezucha is writing.
Bezucha, who wrote and directed the 2005 holiday film, revealed that he was penning a sequel after Diane Keaton died.
“Tom Bezucha is a great writer and a great director, and I read the script, and it’s really funny, and it’s so nice that everybody wants to work together again,” Wilson said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “And I think you know, after the death of Diane Keaton, it’ll be even more meaningful because she was so great to be around on the first one.”
Wilson reminisced about why the Christmas-themed movie became so beloved, saying, “It’s one of those movies where, when it came out, you know, it’s just one of those things when, over the years, more people mentioned it to me, and then families would say ‘We watch it at Christmas’ or ‘We watch it at Thanksgiving.’ It really caught me by surprise.”
Following Keaton’s death at the age of 79, Bezucha told CNN, “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. Mentally, I’ve been spending time in that house where I’ve been missing her for a while already.”
In The Family Stone, Sybil (Keaton) 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’s (Mulroney) plans to propose to his high-strung girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), whom Sybil does not approve of.
