“The Devil Wears Prada 2”: Everything We Know (So Far!) About the Sequel 

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NEED TO KNOW

  • In July 2024, The Devil Wears Prada was confirmed to beryllium getting a sequel
  • The crippled will reportedly travel Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly arsenic she navigates nan diminution of people journalism
  • The Devil Wears Prada 2 is group for a May 1, 2026 merchandise date

Get retired your florals! The Devil Wears Prada 2 is coming adjacent spring.

In July 2024, nan original 2006 movie — which starred Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt — was confirmed to beryllium getting a sequel. While location haven't been charismatic casting announcements, galore of nan original stars are rumored to return, stepping backmost into their iconic roles successful nan glamorous — but evolved — high-fashion publicity manufacture years later.

During an October 2024 speech pinch PEOPLE, Tucci opened up astir nan anticipation of reprising his domiciled arsenic creation head Nigel and reuniting pinch his erstwhile costars, saying, "I deliberation we would person 1 of nan champion times ever."

"If it does happen, I tin only opportunity that I'll beryllium happy," he said. "I've made galore movies, I've astir apt made adjacent to 100 movies, and I don't moreover cognize really galore tv episodes, but that acquisition was 1 of nan top experiences I've ever had."

The original film, based connected Lauren Weisberger's book of nan aforesaid name, follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway), a caller assemblage postgraduate eager to prosecute a profession successful journalism. Andy ends up moving arsenic a inferior adjunct for Miranda Priestly (Streep), nan editor-in-chief of Runway, a fictional high-fashion magazine. Throughout nan movie, Andy struggles to meet nan demands of her occupation while maintaining her narration pinch her fellow and co-workers, Emily (Blunt) and Nigel (Tucci).

The movie yet grossed $326 cardinal astatine nan worldwide container agency and was well-received during awards season, earning Streep her 14th Academy Award nomination.

From nan crippled to nan merchandise date, here's everything we cognize truthful acold astir The Devil Wears Prada sequel.

What will The Devil Wears Prada 2 beryllium about?

Meryl Streep successful 'The Devil Wears Prada.'.

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According to Variety, nan sequel follows Priestly “as she navigates her profession amid nan diminution of accepted mag publishing and arsenic she faces disconnected against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group pinch advertizing dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”

The movie could besides incorporated crippled points of nan book sequel, Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, which was released successful 2013. The caller takes spot astir a decade aft nan original and sees Andy and Emily travel together arsenic apical mag editors erstwhile Miranda comes sneaking backmost into Andy’s life.

Who is successful nan formed of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep successful 'The Devil Wears Prada'.

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Reports of The Devil Wears Prada 2's potential crippled suggests that Streep and Blunt would beryllium back, but nary casting specifications person officially been confirmed. Per Entertainment Weekly, Tucci is besides successful talks to return pinch Blunt and Streep.

The 3 lead women had a small reunion connected nan SAG Awards stage successful February 2024 erstwhile they announced nan victor of champion antheral character successful a drama series.

As Streep began to unfastened nan letter cover to denote nan winner, Blunt called backmost to 1 of Streep’s iconic lines from nan movie, saying, "By each means, move astatine a glacial pace. You cognize that thrills me.”

The erstwhile month, Hathaway and Blunt reunited for Variety’s “Actors connected Actors” bid and reflected connected their time making nan movie.

"We conscionable had a joyousness explosive of a clip connected that movie. I don’t cognize if immoderate of america knew it was going to go what it did,” Blunt said. “It’s quoted to maine each week. It will beryllium nan movie that changed my life."

What has nan original formed said astir a sequel?

Anne Hathaway successful 'The Devil Wears Prada'.

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Though nan main formed person had thing but affirmative things to opportunity astir their clip making nan original, they person expressed immoderate hesitancy astir a sequel.

In April 2024, Hathaway told Extra that she “wouldn’t clasp retired excessively overmuch hope” for a sequel aft telling E! News that erstwhile period that she didn’t “think a continuation of that communicative is astir apt ever gonna happen.”

Blunt has been much backmost and distant betwixt enthusiasm for a sequel and unsureness, telling PEOPLE successful April 2018 that it whitethorn not beryllium nan champion idea.

“If everyone did it I would beryllium up for it,” she said. “I almost dream it doesn’t [happen] because I deliberation sometimes erstwhile you sequel everything benignant of dilutes really typical nan original is.”

Four years later, successful 2022, she doubled down connected her comments, sharing connected The View that she “would do [a sequel] successful a heartbeat conscionable to play pinch those guys again.”

Just a mates of weeks later, Hathaway made her ain quality connected The View and shared that she didn’t cognize if location could beryllium a sequel since nan movie “was successful a different era.”

"Now, everything's gone truthful digital, and that movie centered astir nan conception of producing a beingness thing. It's conscionable very different now," she said.

Although Hathaway did propose nan anticipation of rebooting nan movie pinch a caller cast. "But they could relaunch it,” she said. “They could find caller group and do it. Do you deliberation they'd fto america do that?"

Most recently, Blunt said during a February 2024 quality connected nan Happy Sad Confused podcast that nan formed is “good” without a sequel. “Sometimes things should beryllium cherished and preserved successful this bubble and it’s okay,” she said.

Who is directing The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt successful 'The Devil Wears Prada'.

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Wendy Finerman, who produced The Devil Wears Prada, is group to return for nan film, and, per Deadline, nan original director, David Frankel, is besides having conversations astir a return.

The aforesaid writer who wrote nan 2006 film, Aline Brosh McKenna, is besides confirmed to beryllium returning.

In ceremony of nan 15th day of nan movie successful 2021, Frankel and McKenna said to Entertainment Weekly about nan imaginable for a sequel, sharing that nan chat wasn’t afloat materialized astatine nan time.

“We had a gathering wherever we said, ‘What could we do if location was a sequel?’ Maybe it was stupid; we felt like, No, this communicative has been told,” Frankel said. “Lauren yet wrote different book pursuing up 15 years later. We came to nan aforesaid conclusion, that conscionable pursuing nan characters wouldn't beryllium nan same.”

McKenna added that it could beryllium absorbing to research nan world of magazines successful nan integer age.

“Magazines and publishing person changed truthful much,” she said. “This is simply a play of clip wherever [Andy] took a beingness book to someone's location each time truthful she could leafage done it. Maybe they still do that, but I uncertainty it. It had its moment!”

When will The Devil Wears Prada 2 beryllium released?

Anne Hathaway successful 'The Devil Wears Prada.'.

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Mark your calendars! The Devil Wears Prada 2 will hit theaters connected May 1, 2026.

Where tin I watch The Devil Wears Prada?

Meryl Streep successful 'The Devil Wears Prada'.

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The Devil Wears Prada is disposable for streaming connected Disney+ pinch a subscription, and connected Hulu pinch a premium subscription. It is besides disposable to rent connected Prime Video.