Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are set to reprise their roles.
It’s official! Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are confirmed to return for The Devil Wears Prada 2, reprising their roles from the 2006 hit flick. Making the news even sweeter for fans of the original movie, filming has commenced, as confirmed by 20th Century Fox’s Instagram post, which also tagged stars Hathaway and Tucci.
Joining the OG leads is Oscar-winning British actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, who will play Miranda Priestly’s (Streep) husband, as reported on Variety.
Based on Lauren Weisberger’s eponymous 2004 novel, the first installment follows aspiring journalist Andy Sachs (Hathaway) who is hired at Runway, an esteemed fashion magazine—a job “a million girls would kill for,” as famously said by Emily Blunt’s…erm…Emily in the movie. The dream job quickly turned into one hell of a ride with the devil incarnate herself, Miranda Priestly, Andy’s imperious, overbearing editor-in-chief.
Fun fact: author Weisberger briefly worked as the Anna Wintour’s assistant at Vogue. Wintour, however, was reported to have said that she “cannot remember who that girl is.” What a very Miranda Priestly thing to say, eh? Weisberger, however, explained that Priestly’s character was inspired by friends’ stories about their bosses in the industry, and not by Wintour herself.
News of the camera rolling for The Devil Wears Prada 2 is quite serendipitous and timely for the fact that only a few days ago, Wintour announced that she’s stepping down as American Vogue’s editor-in-chief after 37 years.
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The plot is still mostly under wraps, but The Guardian reported that the storyline sees Miranda Priestly dealing with the decline of print media (also very timely). She is then forced to build bridges with her former assistant Emily (Blunt), who now heads a luxury brand with lots of money to spend on advertising—of which Priestly is in dire need. It’s still not revealed how Hathaway’s Sachs, who quit Runway at the end of the first film, will fit into this narrative.
The Devil Wears Prada 2, marks Streep’s return to the big screen after 2021’s Don’t Look Up. She has been delighting couch potatoes since 2023, however, as Loretta Durkin, the love interest for Martin Short’s character Oliver Putnam in the hit whodunit Only Murders in Building.
Hathaway, meanwhile, was last seen romancing Nicholas Galitzine in the 2024 May-December romance The Idea of You. The 42-year-old actress has a busy schedule ahead. Apart from The Devil Wears Prada 2, she is set to lead the melodrama Mother Mary (release date TBA), and has an astounding four film projects scheduled next year, including the much talked about Christopher Nolan adaptation of The Odyssey, where she plays the Penelope to Matt Damon’s Odysseus.
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Blunt, meanwhile, most recently starred opposite Ryan Gosling in the action comedy film The Fall Guy (2024). She will be seen alongside Dwayne Johnson in the UFC drama The Smashing Machine, which is set for a premiere later this year. She’ll also lead Steven Spielberg’s still untitled summer thriller scheduled for next year and which is already in post-production.
Tucci, who played fashion director Nigel Kipling in the original The Devil Wears Prada, starred alongside Ralph Fiennes in the critically-acclaimed and box-office hit film Conclave, and just recently released a new TV series on Disney+/National Geographic titled Tucci in Italy. Another fun fact: Tucci is Emily Blunt’s brother-in-law, having married her older sister, Felicity.
Going back to The Devil Wears Prada 2, David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, who directed and wrote the first film, are also returning for the sequel, as well as producer Karen Rosenfelt.
It’s exciting to see if the sequel could live up to the original, which was both a critical and commercial success. It made over US$326m globally and scored Streep a best actress nomination at the Oscars and Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning the trophy at the Golden Globes. More than the accolades and the box office numbers, however, the film has proven itself a classic and is still compulsively watchable even after almost 20 years since its premiere.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 will open in theaters on May 1, 2026.
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