The Family Stone is getting back together on the big screen following the heartbreaking death of movie matriarch Diane Keaton.
Searchlight Pictures announced via Instagram on Saturday, September 12, that Keaton’s onscreen brood would all return for a follow-up film.
“The Families Stone,” a caption read, teasing the sequel’s title. “Coming Soon.”
Searchlight shared that Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson , Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Elizabeth Reaser, Paul Schneider and Brian J. White are all set to return for the highly anticipated flick.
The new film is expected to take place 20 years after the OG movie, released in 2005. Deadline further reports that the Stone family will reunite for Christmas to find their father (played by Nelson) has invited his new love interest to join the celebrations.
In the original film, son Everett (Mulroney) famously brought his girlfriend, Meredith (Parker), home for the holidays. After a week of hijinks, Meredith ended up falling in love with Everett’s brother Ben (Wilson). Keaton, who died in October 2025 at the age of 79, portrayed matriarch Sybil in The Family Stone, whose character died after a battle with terminal cancer at the end of the first movie.
The Families Stone will be written and directed by Thomas Bezucha, who also helmed the first film. Bezucha, 62, previously revealed that the sequel will serve as a poignant tribute to Keaton’s legacy.
Diane Keaton and Craig T. Nelson in ‘The Family Stone.’ 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection
“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 told CNN in November 2025, sharing his plans for the sequel to “honor” the late Annie Hall actress. “Mentally, I’ve been spending time in that house where I’ve been missing her for a while already.”
While further details have yet to be announced, Wilson, 54, recently teased that he was excited to return.
“I can’t believe it’s happening, but it is,” Wilson gushed to Entertainment Tonight in July. “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.”
The Hawk star added, “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 has previously been candid about his experience filming the first Family Stone movie.
“We did wind up spending more time together and had a couple of nice dinners. It’s very helpful,” Wilson recalled to Us exclusively in 2021 of the pre-production process. “Diane, we all kind of admired her. And in my mind, here’s Sarah Jessica and she’s sort of this icon of fashion and humor from Sex and the City and then here’s the original icon of fashion and humor — Diane. … I just remember those being kind of exciting [feelings] where you’re going to dinner alone meeting all these people.”
