Gird your loins — Miranda Priestly is on her way back to the office. Puck reports that a sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” is in development at Disney, with Meryl Streep set to return in her winning role as Priestly. In the sequel, Streep’s Priestly, the fearsome editor of Runway, a fashion magazine, would reportedly be contending with the fall of print magazines in the twilight of her career.
Streep starred alongside fellow Oscar winner Anne Hathaway in the hit 2006 film, scripted by their fellow New Jerseyan Aline Brosh McKenna . (Brosh McKenna grew up in Demarest and Montvale ; Streep in Basking Ridge and Bernardsville and Hathaway in Millburn .) Related: Aline Brosh McKenna brought us ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘27 Dresses.
’ Now she updates the rom-com. In the ever-quotable film , Hathaway plays Andy Sachs, a new assistant to Priestly who has a lot to learn about fashion and meeting the demands of a relentlessly demanding boss. Emily Blunt plays another assistant, Emily Charlton, in a breakout role, co-starring alongside Hathaway, Streep, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier and Simon Baker.
Streep, Hathaway and Blunt reunited onstage at the SAG Awards in February for a “Devil Wears Prada”-themed bit . Puck reports that Blunt is slated to return alongside Streep. Brosh McKenna (” 27 Dresses ,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “ Your Place or Mine ”), who adapted “The Devil Wears Prada” from Lauren Weisberger ’s 2003 book of the same name (Weisberger .
