‘Satan Wears Prada’ Sequel within the Works

We’d not be going to Paris, however we’re going again into the world of Miranda Priestly as a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is reportedly within the works!

In accordance with a number of studies, Disney is engaged on a follow-up to the mega-successful 2006 style dramedy starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. Puck was first to share the groundbreaking information and report that each Streep and Blunt have signed on. 

On Monday, the outlet reported that movie producer Wendy Finerman is difficult at work recruiting the unique movie’s scribe, Aline Brosh McKenna, to pen the script, which is able to purportedly observe Streep’s character close to the tip of her profession and seeking to Blunt’s character for help within the dying journal enterprise. Moreover, Deadline states that the unique director, David Frankel, can be in talks to return. 

The film is an adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 eponymous novel, which follows journalist Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she struggles to maintain up because the junior assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), the editor-in-chief of Runway journal — an Anna Wintour sort, if you’ll. Blunt stars as Emily Charlton, Priestly’s senior assistant, who is consistently in competitors to get a leg up on others on the journal, whereas Tucci performs Nigel Kipling, Runway‘s artwork director. Streep was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe again in 2007 for the function. 

Earlier this 12 months, Hathaway really commented on the potential of a sequel mere weeks after she reunited with Blunt and Streep at the SAG Awards in a hilarious parody of their film. 

“In all probability not,” she informed V Magazine about whether or not she may see a Satan Wears Prada sequel taking place. “All of us love one another and if any person may give you a approach to do it, I believe we might all be loopy to not.”

Hathaway additionally beforehand spoke concerning the potential sequel throughout a 2022 look on The View when she shared skepticism on the considered returning to the world of style journalism within the print kind.

“I simply suppose that film was in a distinct period. Now all the things’s gone so digital and that film is centered across the idea of manufacturing a bodily factor and it’s simply, it’s simply very completely different,” the Les Misérables Academy Award winner said, per Deadline.

Within the practically twenty years for the reason that movie’s launch, the undertaking has turn into a cultural touchstone and has been memed, parodied and quoted extra instances than anybody individual can rely. It is also heading to London’s West End in musical form with Vanessa Williams — who quite mockingly performed demanding style journal editor Wilhelmina Slater in Ugly Betty — because the titular satan in Prada. 

In 2018, ET spoke with Blunt who expressed her willingness (and curiosity) in reprising her character for a possible sequel — no matter which will appear to be. Weisberger has penned not solely a sequel to her hit novel, aptly titled Revenge Wears Prada, however a by-product centered round Blunt’s character. 

“I might be down,” the Oscar-nominated actress mentioned on the time of coming into the style world once more. “I imply, if everybody wished to do it, could possibly be cool.”

Equally, ET chatted with Tucci in 2023 as he was selling his Prime Video collection, Citadel, the place he echoed Blunt’s openness to heading again to Runway journal. 

“I might fortunately play Nigel in The Satan Wears Prada once more. It was a extremely nice expertise,” he mentioned.

This is hoping that Streep and Blunt can get the complete gang again collectively — and that everybody will get to go to Paris Trend Week this time round. 

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