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A sequel? For a beloved movie from almost 20 years ago that already closed the book quite neatly? Groundbreaking. Yes, a Devil Wears Prada sequel is in the works with nearly all of the original leading actors in talks to reprise their roles from the 2006 movie.
Puck first reported that Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt had been brought back into the fold. However, per an update from Entertainment Weekly, both actresses plus Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, director David Frankel, and producer Wendy Finerman are reportedly all in talks to return for the follow-up film. The film’s screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna, has reportedly come aboard, and the sequel already has a story. Streep’s Anna Wintour–inspired Miranda Priestly is at the end of her career as the editor-in-chief of Runway, dealing with the slow death of print media. Blunt’s character, Emily (whose last name is apparently Charlton?), has worked her way up from top assistant to “high-powered executive at a Kering or LVMH-style luxury group” who hold all the advertising dollars. You see where this is going. Now, Miranda needs Emily.
That is a pretty good idea for a sequel, to be honest. It changes up the power dynamics, it brings the story to the present day, and it tackles an issue that the average movie-goer deeply cares about: how to create a profitable media brand in the 2020s.
Even if she’s not in it, the film will have to address what Hathaway’s Andy Sachs is up to now. Last we saw her, she was getting hired at the New York Mirror based on the strength of her college reporting on janitors’ unions and Priestly’s recommendation. What would Sachs be doing 18 years later? Did the gloomy future of media inspire a pivot to tech? Was The Intern just a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada this whole time? Or maybe Andy just has a modestly successful Substack and a husband who makes a lot of money. That’s all.
