“It’s brilliant, and a lot of the actors have said yes,” teased Mulroney
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NEED TO KNOW
- A sequel to 2005 holiday film The Family Stone is reportedly in the works
- Cast member Dermot Mulroney, appearing on The Tangle podcast, confirmed that he had read a script and that “a lot of the actors have said yes”
- Per Mulroney, the follow-up will be titled The Families Stone
Dermot Mulroney is confirming a long-awaited sequel to one of his beloved movies.
A follow-up to 2005 holiday classic The Family Stone is reportedly in the works with most of the original cast returning, Mulroney, 62, recently said on The Tangle podcast.
"I think it's going to be entitled The Families Stone," said the actor, who played Everett Stone in writer-director Thomas Bezucha's comedy-drama.
"Everyone's up for returning. I can be on record," Mulroney said, specifically naming costars Luke Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Craig T. Nelson. The Family Stone also starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Elizabeth Reaser, Ty Giordano, Brian White, Paul Schneider and the late Diane Keaton.
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It was after Keaton's death at age 79 in October 2025 that Bezucha “re-approached this storyline,” continued the My Best Friend's Wedding star. "I think he wrote it very quickly. I've read it. It's brilliant, and a lot of the actors have said yes.”
Keaton, who played Stone matriarch Sybil, “was so impactful on all of our lives in that mother part in that life-altering movie,” said Mulroney.
Mulroney also teased plot details, quipping, “You won't believe how s— went down the last 20 years for the Stones.”
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In January, Parker, 61, who played The Family Stone's Meredith Morton, told Variety at the Golden Eve gala that she was “so excited” about the reported sequel. But, she added, “it's a rather bittersweet quandary given the loss of Diane Keaton.”
Bezucha told CNN last November that he had already begun working on a sequel to The Family Stone prior to the Oscar winner's death. Calling the loss “a blow on a tender bruise already,” he said, “mentally, I've been spending time in that house where I've been missing her for a while already.”
In addition to recently starring on Chicago Fire, Mulroney's upcoming projects include November 1963 and The Hunting Wives.
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