A sequel to the holiday classic The Family Stone is in the works more than one month after the death of the film’s original star Diane Keaton.

Keaton portrayed matriarch Sybil Stone in the 2005 movie written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Bezucha, 61, revealed that the story of the Stone family isn’t over following Sybil’s cancer death at the end of the original movie.

“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,” the filmmaker told CNN on Wednesday, November 19, while reflecting on working with Keaton. “Mentally, I’ve been spending time in that house where I’ve been missing her for a while already.”

Keaton died on October 11 at age 79. Her cause of death was listed as bacterial pneumonia with no underly

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