After years of speculation, conflicting interviews from its stars, and a delightful onstage reunion at last year’s SAG Awards, those of us who still worship at the feet of the cult classic that is The Devil Wears Prada finally have the news we’ve been waiting for: almost two decades later, a sequel is now in production and—wait for it—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are all officially returning for it.
If you’re getting whiplash, you’re not the only one. Back in October 2022, during a red carpet interview, Anne Hathaway told Entertainment Tonight categorically that “there’s not going to be a sequel. It’s not gonna happen. We can’t do it.” Then, in April 2024, when asked about the possibility of a sequel by V Magazine, she reiterated that it was “probably not” going to happen, though she was notably less definitive in shutting down the rumors. “We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to,” she said. “But 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. Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Patricia Field…we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.”
But now, it looks like that particular gang—or at least most of them—will in fact be reuniting, joined by the original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who is penning the next chapter, as well as its director, David Frankel, and producer Wendy Finerman. Tracie Thoms, who played Andrea’s friend Lily in the first movie, and Tibor Feldman, who played Irv Ravitz, chairman of Elias-Clark, Runway’s parent company, will also reportedly reprise their roles.
The storyline will follow “Miranda Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”
And that’s not all: as presaged in the original The Devil Wears Prada, in which Miranda was gearing up for another divorce, there is a new “Mr. Priestly” on the scene: none other than Kenneth Branagh, who is coming onboard as her husband.
