What Will Happen In The Devil Wears Prada Sequel?

It’s official: Disney is developing a sequel to the 2006 cult and commercial classic film (it smashed the box office earning $326.7 million worldwide, earning Meryl Streep a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy and an Oscar nomination), The Devil Wears Prada. Here’s everything you need to know.

Andy (Anne Hathaway, left) whispers some important information to her boss, fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), as Miranda’s first assistant, Emily (Emily Blunt) looks on.

The Devil Wears Prada Sequel: Plot, Cast, Release Date & More

Often cited as a favourite film, especially among fashion lovers, The Devil Wears Prada is a seminal classic based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name. ‘We just had a joy bomb of a time on that movie,’ Blunt recently said to Hathaway during the duo’s Actors on Actors with Variety. ‘I don’t know if any of us knew it was going to become what it did. It’s quoted to me every week. It will be the movie that changed my life.’

Starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and more, a sequel has always been in high demand, but our prayers have never been answered. Until now.

Are They Making The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Yes, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is officially happening, with shooting scheduled to commence on 30 November 2024. The original screenwriter for the 2006 film, Aline Brosh McKenna, is back on the books, and Disney is fully committed to the project, too. Full steam ahead!

The news comes just as a musical adaptation of the film gears up to debut on London’s West End, featuring an original score by Elton John and starring Vanessa Williams as Miranda Priestly, Georgie Buckland as Andy, Amy Di Bartolomeo as Emily and Matt Henry as Stanley Tucci’s character, Nigel. It will open at the Dominion Theatre in October 2024.

Imperious fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) dumps her coat on the desk of new assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway).

What Will Happen?

In 2013, Weisberger released a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada entitled Revenge Wears Prada, set a decade after the events of the first book. In it, Andy is the editor for a bridal magazine called The Plunge, which she launched with former nemesis, Miranda’s first assistant Emily Charlton. As Andy plans her own wedding, she remains haunted by her short but impactful experience working for Miranda Priestly – until the two meet again. The Plunge is doing so well that it attracts the interest of Elias-Clarke, the publishing company that owns Runway. Enter Miranda, who begins courting Andy and Emily – a total contrast to her poor treatment of the duo 10 years ago – in an attempt to persuade them to sell the magazine to Elias-Clarke.

So, will this be the plot of the second film? We thought so – but it seems the team will be treading a different path. Instead of the high glamour scenes of the original film, The Devil Wears Prada 2 will delve into the decline of print media as Miranda faces the end of her career. It seems Miranda desperately needs the advertising dollars of an LVMH-style luxury group – with one of the brand’s crucial high-powered executives being Emily, Miranda’s former mistreated assistant, turning the power dynamics totally on their head. The sequel could take some cues from the book, then, but it seems writer Aline Brosh McKenna will be taking it in a different direction.

Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Nigel (Stanley Tucci) in The Devil Wears Prada

The Cast Of The Devil Wears Prada Sequel

So who will star? Everyone important, it seems. The Devil Wears Prada’s shiniest star Meryl Streep has officially signed on for the sequel, reprising her role as Runway magazine’s high-powered fashion editor with a withering glare, Miranda Priestly. In the first film, protagonist Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) and Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt) work as Miranda’s harried assistants, eventually prompting Andie to dramatically quit her role with a flashy backdrop of Paris – and they’re both back, too. And to complete the set, it seems Stanley Tucci, who played art director Nigel in the original, is in talks to return too.

The tentative cast list, therefore, is as follows:

• Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
• Anne Hathaway as Andie Sachs
• Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
• Stanley Tucci as Nigel

Emily (Emily Blunt) and Andy (Anne Hathaway) in The Devil Wears Prada.

Is It Based On A True Story?

It is widely acknowledged that Miranda Priestly is supposed to be Anna Wintour and The Devil Wears Prada encapsulates author Lauren Weisberger’s experience working at Vogue for 10 months in the ‘90s. Whether this is a true or accurate portrayal of her time at the magazine is another matter. Indeed, while the novel stormed the bestseller list, Vogue was critical, with Kate Betts writing in The New York Times that ‘Andrea [the protagonist, based on Lauren] is just as much a snob as the snobs she is thrown in with’. 

Release Date

No news just yet on when The Devil Wears Prada sequel will be released, but our fingers are crossed for a date towards the end of 2025.