It’s been revealed that The Devil Wears Prada 2 is finally happening, and the sequel is now in the works at Disney.
According to sources for Deadline, screenwriter for the original film, Aline Brosh Mckenna (27 Dresses, We Bought a Zoo), has been enlisted to write a sequel to the smash-hit 2006 movie starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.
The first film was based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. It saw journalism graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) landing a job as a junior assistant to the editor-in-chief of a high-fashion magazine. Her new boss, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), is basically the boss from hell, but Andy manages to battle through a torrid start on the job and soon finds herself becoming more and more like her seemingly cold-blooded mentor.
Meryl Streep earned an Oscar nod for her role, while the movie proved to be a breakthrough for Emily Blunt.
The sequel will reportedly see Miranda Priestly at the end of her career as she contends with the decline of traditional magazines.
Will The Devil Wears Prada sequel feature the original cast?
There’s no official word on Hathaway, Streep, or Blunt’s return for The Devil Wears Prada 2. However, Puck has reported that Streep and Blunt are set to reprise their roles. Director David Frankel (Marley & Me, Band of Brothers) is reportedly in talks to return for the sequel, as is producer Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump).
Anne Hathaway had previously poured cold water on a possible sequel. “I don’t know if there can be [a sequel],” she said on The View in 2022. “I just think that movie was in a different era. Now everything’s gone so digital and that movie is centered around the concept of producing a physical thing and it’s just, it’s just very different.”
The Devil Wears Prada was released in June 2006 and raked in a very impressive $326 million worldwide.
