A sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is reportedly in the works at Disney, with Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt reprising their characters from the iconic 2006 film. According to Puck , which first reported the news, it follows Streep’s Miranda Priestly “at the end of her career, facing the decline of traditional magazine publishing”. Blunt, who played Miranda’s harried assistant Emily Charlton, has moved on to become an executive “at a Kering or LVMH-style luxury group”, with the kind of advertising budget that Priestley needs to save her magazine.
The Independent has contacted representatives of Streep and Blunt for comment. Scriptwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, director David Frankel, and producer Wendy Finerman are also reportedly in talks to return. It is not known if Anne Hathway will reprise her role as Andrea Sachs .
She sounded doubtful in an interview earlier this year . “I don’t think a continuation of that story is probably ever gonna happen,” she said. The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel, follows Andrea as she lands a job working for Priestly, the ice-cold editor of a major New York fashion magazine.
The character of Priestly is considered to have been at least partially inspired by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who Weisberger worked for as a personal assistant. The film was a box office hit, raking in $326.7m worldwide and winning Streep a Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy.
Last year, Blunt and Hathaway reunited.
