Luke Wilson is sharing an update on The Family Stone sequel that Tom Bezucha is writing.
Bezucha, who wrote and directed nan 2005 vacation film, revealed that he was penning a sequel aft Diane Keaton died.
“Tom Bezucha is simply a awesome writer and a awesome director, and I publication nan script, and it’s really funny, and it’s truthful bully that everybody wants to activity together again,” Wilson said successful an question and reply pinch Entertainment Tonight. “And I deliberation you know, aft nan decease of Diane Keaton, it’ll beryllium moreover much meaningful because she was truthful awesome to beryllium astir connected nan first one.”
Wilson reminisced astir why nan Christmas-themed movie became truthful beloved, saying, “It’s 1 of those movies where, erstwhile it came out, you know, it’s conscionable 1 of those things when, complete nan years, much group mentioned it to me, and past families would opportunity ‘We watch it astatine Christmas’ aliases ‘We watch it astatine Thanksgiving.’ It really caught maine by surprise.”
Following Keaton’s decease astatine nan property of 79, Bezucha told CNN, “I’ve been haunted by nan nonaccomplishment of Sybil for months now while I worked connected it, and truthful this was a rustle connected a tender bruise already. Mentally, I’ve been spending clip successful that location wherever I’ve been missing her for a while already.”
In The Family Stone, Sybil (Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) big their big kids (Dermot Mulroney, Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and Elizabeth Reaser) for nan holidays, arsenic she prepares to show nan family astir her terminal illness. The sojourn is analyzable by Everett’s (Mulroney) plans to propose to his high-strung girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), whom Sybil does not o.k. of.