We may not be going to Paris, but we are returning to Miranda Priestly’s world as a sequel to The devil Wears Prada is supposedly in progress!
According to multiple reports, Disney is currently working on a sequel to the mega-hit 2006 fashion comedy-drama starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt It is Stanley Tucci. Disco was the first to share the innovative news, while Weekly entertainment reports that Hathaway, Streep, Blunt and Tucci are in talks to reprise their roles. EW also reports that original director David Frankel is in negotiations to helm the project.
On Monday, news first broke that film producer Wendy Finerman is working hard to recruit the original film’s screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna, to write the script, which will reportedly follow Streep’s character near the end of her career and rely on Blunt’s character for assistance in her dying magazine business. It’s unclear whether this is the actual plot of the film or just a possible scenario.
The original film is an adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, which follows journalist Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she struggles to make ends meet as a junior assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), editor-in-chief of the Track magazine — an Anna Wintour type, if you will. Blunt stars as Emily Charlton, Priestly’s senior assistant who is constantly competing to get an edge over others at the magazine, while Tucci plays Nigel Kipling, TrackStreep’s art director. Streep was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 2007 for the role.
Earlier this year, Hathaway commented on the possibility of a sequel just weeks later She reunited with Blunt and Streep at the SAG Awards in a hilarious parody of his film.
“Probably not,” she said. V Magazine about whether she could see a The devil Wears Prada sequence happening. “We all love each other and if someone could invent a way to do that, I think we would all be crazy not to do it.”
Hathaway also previously spoke about the possible sequel during a 2022 appearance on In cash when she shared skepticism about the idea of returning to the world of fashion journalism in print form.
“I just think that movie was in a different era. Now everything has become so digital and that movie is centered around the concept of producing something physical and it’s just, it’s just very different,” he said. The miserable The Oscar winner stated, for Deadline.
In the nearly two decades since the film’s release, the project has become a cultural touchstone and has been memeed, parodied, and quoted more times than anyone can count. It’s also heading to London’s West End in musical form with Vanessa Williams — who ironically played the demanding fashion magazine editor Wilhelmina Slater in Ugly Betty — as the titular devil in Prada.
In 2018, ET spoke to Blunt who has expressed her willingness (and interest) in reprising her character for a possible sequel — whatever that may look like. Weisberger has written not only a sequel to her successful novel, aptly titled Revenge Wears Pradabut a spinoff centered on Blunt’s character.
“I would be up for it,” the Oscar-nominated actress said of her return to the fashion world. “I mean, if everyone wanted to do it, that would be cool.”
Similarly, ET spoke to Tucci in 2023, while promoting his Prime Video series, Citadelwhere he echoed Blunt’s openness to returning to Track magazine.
“I would be happy to play Nigel in The devil Wears Prada again. It was a really great experience,” he said.
We hope everyone can make it to Paris Fashion Week this time.
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