The Stone family is readying for a reunion.

Thomas Bezucha, who wrote and directed the 2005 dramedy “ The Family Stone ,” is working on a sequel to the contemporary holiday classic. He told CNN that he had already been thinking about revisiting the fictional kin before the death of Diane Keaton , who died in October at the age of 79 . Keaton’s character, the Stone family’s matriarch Sybil, dies after a terminal illness at the end of the original film.

“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.”

Now Bezucha says he wants to “honor [Keaton] even more” and “do a g

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