The Stone household is readying for a reunion.
Thomas Bezucha, who wrote and directed the 2005 dramedy “The Household Stone,” is engaged on a sequel to the modern vacation traditional. He instructed CNN that he had already been fascinated by revisiting the fictional kin earlier than the demise of Diane Keaton, who died in October on the age of 79. Keaton’s character, the Stone household’s matriarch Sybil, dies after a terminal sickness on the finish of the unique movie.
“I’ve been haunted by the lack of Sybil for months now whereas I labored on it, and so this was a blow on a young bruise already,” Bezucha mentioned throughout a CNN interview. “Mentally, I’ve been spending time in that home the place I’ve been lacking her for some time already.”
Now Bezucha says he needs to “honor [Keaton] much more” and “do job by the remainder of the solid.”
“The Household Stone” follows a clumsy tradition conflict when Sybil’s son brings his uptight girlfriend house to New England to rejoice the vacations with their wacky, bohemian household. A perennial Christmas favourite and field workplace hit, the film encompasses a star-studded solid of Sarah Jessica Parker, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Claire Danes and Craig T. Nelson.
It’s unclear who will probably be again for the follow-up movie. Bezucha instructed CNN that no one has formally signed on and the sequel has not been formally greenlit by Disney, which acquired the movie’s authentic distributor twentieth Century Fox in 2019. Nonetheless, Bezucha expressed that he solely needs to return with the unique solid.
“I’m not within the Brady household reunion with out the unique Jan,” he mentioned.
