Your favorite dysfunctional family is getting ready to spend another holiday season together — and it’s going to be even more emotional this time around. Thomas Bezucha, the writer and director of 2005’s The Family Stone has revealed that he’s currently working on a sequel, having been inspired to “honor” Diane Keaton after learning of her death earlier this year.

Bezucha confirmed the new movie to CNN on Nov. 19 , revealing that he had already been fleshing out a sequel idea when the news broke of Keaton’s untimely death on Oct. 11 . Keaton starred in the original movie as matriarch Sybil Stone, whose emotional death at the end of the film brings her maladjusted family together again. The shock of life imitating art galvanized Bezucha to double down his efforts to make this follow-

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