Seems like Miranda Priestly will be back in the halls of Runway with her iconic shades and biting zingers again. Groundbreaking. It was reported earlier on Tuesday, July 9, that after 18 years, a sequel to the iconic film The Devil Wears Prada is in the works at Disney.
The 2006 film, based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel, starred Meryl Streep as Priestly, the powerful editor of fashion magazine Runway, with Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt as her assistants. The film was a box office success and earned Streep a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nod.
According to Variety, the original film’s screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna, is in talks to return.
The storyline for the sequel 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.
To say that it would go on to define the careers of Hathaway and Blunt is an understatement. Streep already had an illustrious career prior to the film, but The Devil Wears Prada launched Blunt’s career and added another notch to Hathaway’s growing list of film achievements. The three of them are amongst Hollywood’s biggest stars now.
In Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Blunt told Hathaway that the film was “quoted to me every week”. She added, “It will be the movie that changed my life.” The trio even reunited onstage in February during the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
However, there has yet to be any news on who from the original cast will return—if any. Can the sequel ever stand a chance of success without the three of them? As Miranda Priestly would say, “No, no, that wasn’t a question.”
