Gird your loins. Miranda Priestly is set to deliver more withering glances in a sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Disney is developing a sequel to the hit 2006 movie starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, the high-powered fashion magazine editor from hell (or, more accurately, the editor-in-chief of Runway magazine) with Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt as her harried assistants Andrea Sachs and Emily Charlton.
The original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Your Place or Mine”) is in talks to return to pen the next chapter. Who from the original cast will return is not clear, but the storyline reportedly follows Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.
Based on Lauren Weisberger’s dishy 2003 novel about a young woman’s nightmarish experience working at a fashion magazine (Weisberger worked as a personal assistant for American Vogue editor Anna Wintour), “The Devil Wears Prada” was a box office smash, earning $326.7 million worldwide and landing Streep a Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination. Designer Patricia Field was also nominated for an Oscar for the film’s costume design.
In the years since, fans have speculated whether “that’s all” for Miranda, Andy, and Emily. The trio of actors have kept the film on the public’s mind, most recently reuniting onstage at February’s SAG Awards. Hathaway and Blunt also sat down to reminisce about making the movie for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, revisiting some of the film’s most iconic moments and dishing about working with Streep (who improvised some of Miranda’s most biting lines, but missed out on a lot of the fun on set because she went Method for the role).
“We just had a joy bomb of a time on that movie,” Blunt told Hathaway during the conversation. “I don’t know if any of us knew it was going to become what it did. It’s quoted to me every week. It will be the movie that changed my life.”
News of a “Devil Wears Prada” sequel comes as the stage musical version, featuring Vanessa Williams donning Miranda Priestly’s trademark dark sunglasses, begins previews in advance of an October opening on London’s West End. The production features an original score by Elton John, direction and choreography by three-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, lyrics by singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, and book by Kate Wetherhead.
Puck was first to report news of the sequel, produced by Oscar winner Wendy Finerman. Disney had no comment.
If, for some reason, you have been manifesting a Devil Wears Prada sequel since the original film premiered in 2006, your prayers have been answered. A sequel to the uber-popular fashion dramedy is in the works at Disney, and a lot of familiar faces are likely set to return.
While most details are being kept under wraps, we have gotten some pretty juicy details about the Devil Wears Prada sequel. According to Puck’s report, Aline Brosh McKenna, who penned the script for the original Devil Wears Prada movie, is in talks to return as screenwriter for the sequel.
The Devil Wears Prada sequel, or the Devil Wears Prada 2 if you will, is said to follow the stories of current-day Miranda Priestly (played in the original film by Meryl Streep) and Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt), who reconnect as Priestly navigates a rough patch in her glossy editing career due to the decline of traditional magazine publishing. Emily is said to be “a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs” now.
Devil Wears Prada 2 truthers have long been manifesting an adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s follow-up book, Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns. The book, published in 2014, follows the story of Andy Sachs and Emily Charlton, running their own high-end bridal magazine, The Plunge, after exiting Runway. However, a lot of things have changed in media since 2014.
No casting announcements have yet been made public for the Devil Wears Prada 2, but given that the story centers on Miranda Priestly and Emily, most assume Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt will likely reprise their roles. There is no word on whether the sequel story will include Andrea “Andy” Sachs, Anne Hathaway’s titular role from the original movie.
Earlier this year, Anne Hathaway opened up about the possibility of a Devil Wears Prada sequel while promoting The Idea of You, and she said it was “probably not” happening. “There’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now, with so much being digital, it would just be very different,” Hathaway claimed at the time — though the potential new plot seems to have that covered.
Emily Blunt also said that “sometimes things should be cherished and preserved in this bubble, and it’s okay,” hinting that a sequel would not be a good idea, though she had previously said she’d be down to make it happen “if everyone did it” but also had some reservations, claiming that “sometimes when you sequel everything [it] kind of dilutes how special the original is.”
That said, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt did have a Devil Wears Prada reunion during the SAG Awards 2024, so maybe that little meeting changed their minds.
This story will continue to be updated as news about the Devil Wears Prada sequel breaks.
Source: Puck, Entertainment Weekly
