Practically twenty years after “The Devil Wears Prada” strutted and sashayed its approach into theaters, a sequel is formally within the works.
Selection on Monday broke the information {that a} follow-up to the smash 2006 movie, which starred Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, is being developed by Disney. A day after Selection’s report, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that each Hathaway and Streep, together with co-stars Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, are “in talks” to reprise their roles within the new film.
Unique screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna is engaged on the brand new film’s screenplay, with director David Frankel additionally anticipated to return, based on EW.
Primarily based on Lauren Weisberger’s bestselling 2003 novel, “The Devil Wears Prada” follows aspiring journalist Andy Sachs (performed by Hathaway), who lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), the ruthlessly demanding editor-in-chief of a high-end vogue journal.
Arnaldo Magnani through Getty Photographs
It’s broadly believed that the story is predicated on Weisberger’s temporary stint at Vogue, the place she labored underneath Anna Wintour, the publication’s legendary editor-in-chief. Wintour, for her half, has pointedly described the film as “fiction.”
“The Devil Wears Prada” was a vital and industrial smash, raking in a reported $326.7 million on the field workplace worldwide. Streep gained a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Miranda, and the movie proved a breakout second for the London-born Blunt, who was till then greatest referred to as a British theater actor.
In February, Blunt, Hathaway and Streep reunited on stage on the 2024 Display Actors Guild Awards.
Michael Buckner through Getty Photographs
When requested in regards to the prospect of a sequel simply two months later, nonetheless, Hathaway appeared skeptical.
“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 advised the style journal V in April. “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.”
Although particulars are scarce, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” seems to be taking a few of Hathaway’s considerations, in addition to the financial challenges that have rattled the real-life media trade lately, under consideration.
In accordance to Selection, the movie finds Miranda grappling with the decline of conventional journal publishing and at odds with Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, who’s now a high-powered government in control of promoting at a luxurious firm.
The movie sequel doesn’t seem like primarily based on Weisberger’s follow-up novel, “Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns.” Launched in 2013, the ebook sees Andy and Emily teaming as much as launch a marriage journal known as The Plunge, which lands them each again on Miranda’s radar a decade later.
Watch the trailer for 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada” beneath:
