And just like that… fans are getting a sequel to this 2005 rom-com.
Sarah Jessica Parker addressed making another “Family Stone” 21 years later, this time without the beloved Diane Keaton, who died at age 79 in October.
“I’m so excited…but it’s a rather bittersweet quandary given the loss of Diane Keaton,” the actress, 60, told Variety on Tuesday.
“But it was a very special group of actors, and prior to Diane’s passing, there had been conversations with everybody, so I hope that we’ll be able to. The hardest thing is everybody’s schedules.”
The Christmas comedy follows Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) and his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Parker), who head to Connecticut to meet his family. Meredith brings her sister, Julie (Claire Danes), along as she tries to win over her boyfriend’s parents Sybil (Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson).
While celebrating the holiday, Sybil’s shocking breast cancer diagnosis shakes things up.
On Tuesday, Parker also touched on creating more “Sex and the City,” five months after the show’s spin-off “And Just Like That” ended after three seasons in August 2025.
“I hear lots of very original ideas, all lovely and well intentioned and often very clever, but the only thing that really matters is what excites Alexandra Bellusci Michael Patrick King. And right now he’s just not thinking about that,” she mused.
Audiences, however, are set to get a third “Hocus Pocus.”
“They’re working on it,” Parker confessed. “Where Better [Midler] goes, I go. Bette is like a 13-year-old girl with a new bike. She’s like, ‘I have wheels, let us travel.’”
“Hocus Pocus” debuted in 1993, starring Parker, Midler, 80, and Kathy Najimy, 68, as the Sanderson sisters.
In 2022, the sequel saw all three stars reprise their iconic roles.
Meanwhile, in December, Parker detailed working on the “Family Stone” with Keaton.
In the CNN special, “The First Christmas Without Diane,” the “Footloose” actress shared that the 2005 movie gave her an opportunity to “watch [Diane] work and to see how she puts it all together.”
Parker added about the experience: “Really just listening to Diane and responding, given the story, was my best approach, and I loved it.”
“She liked asking very personal questions,” the “Failure to Launch” star recounted, sharing that Keaton would talk about “everything from money to, like, really funny, provocative” topics.
“I think it was simply because she was so interested in people,” Parker continued. “She loved knowing odd facts about people and, I guess, what makes a person an individual was very interesting to her.”
She noted that Keaton “was the first person I ever saw put ice cubes into a Pinot Noir,” explaining: “Now everybody puts their Pinot Noir in the fridge. So of course, typically as usual, she knew something before everybody else.”
Keaton’s immediate cause of death was listed as bacterial pneumonia, according to her death certificate obtained by The Post. She had it for days before her passing.
The document listed no other significant contributing conditions, but noted Keaton was cremated.
“The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11,” Keaton’s relatives shared with the outlet at the time of her death.
“She loved her animals and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her,” they concluded.
After Keaton’s passing, a friend shared that her health “declined very suddenly” in the final months of her life.
“It was so unexpected,” they told People at the time, “especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”
The pal noted that Keaton’s health crisis “was heartbreaking for everyone who loved her.”
“In her final months, she was surrounded only by her closest family, who chose to keep things very private,” her friend continued. “Even longtime friends weren’t fully aware of what was happening.”
Keaton, who was mom to daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25, whom she adopted after turning 50, did not publicly disclose that she was battling an illness. She previously beat two bouts of skin cancer and overcame an eating disorder.
After news of her death broke, Mulroney, told The Post, 62, that “it broke us all up.”
“I had lunch with Tom Bezucha, the director of ‘The Family Stone,’ the week before. So we spoke so much about Diane,” he recalled. “Even then, I didn’t know that she was going to go so soon. She’d just been on my lips a few days before. So it really impacted me. And I was in touch with him and a few other people around that film.”
