After years of speculation, conflicting interviews from its stars, and a delightful onstage reunion at last year’s SAG Awards, a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is officially on its way, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all returning for it.
Back in October 2022, during a red carpet interview, Anne Hathaway told Entertainment Tonight categorically that “there’s not going to be a sequel. It’s not gonna happen. We can’t do it.” Then, in April 2024, when asked about the possibility of a sequel by V Magazine, she reiterated that it was “probably not” going to happen, though she was notably less definitive in shutting down the rumors. “We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to,” she said. “But there’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different. Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Patricia Field…we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.”
But now, it looks like that particular gang will, in fact, be reuniting, joined by the original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who is penning the next chapter, as well as its director David Frankel and producer Wendy Finerman. The storyline will reportedly follow “Miranda Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”
Per Puck’s Lauren Sherman: “Emily Charlton will be a high-powered executive at Christian Dior, and will wear Dior fashion throughout the movie. (Let’s hope it’s new stuff from Jonathan Anderson, who is an accomplished costume designer in his own right.) As for the plot, a significant spoiler ahead: still smarting from a grudge against the dowager empress editor Miranda Priestly, Emily conspires with her billionaire boyfriend (inspired in part by Jeff Bezos, I’m told) to buy Runway—which, like every other print magazine, is struggling.” Reps for LVMH and Disney did not comment.
And that’s not all: as presaged in the original The Devil Wears Prada, in which Miranda was gearing up for another divorce, there is a new “Mr. Priestly” on the scene, played by none other than Kenneth Branagh. In even more good news, Adrian Grenier’s now-universally-regarded-as-toxic boyfriend to Andy, Nate, is confirmed to not be returning.
Other updates came on July 8, 2025, when it was confirmed that Simone Ashley had joined the cast in an undisclosed part, accompanied by Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, BJ Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Rachel Bloom, Patrick Brammall, comedian Caleb Hearon, and Broadway stars Helen J Shen and Conrad Ricamora.
Tracie Thoms, a.k.a. Andy’s gallerist friend Lily, and Tibor Feldman, who played Elias-Clark chairman Irv Ravitz (“tiny man, huge ego”), are also set to reprise their roles in the new film.
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If the first official still from the film (showing Hathaway, clad in a pinstriped waistcoat and trousers) didn’t give much away in July, the teaser that followed on November 12—soundtracked, naturally, by Madonna’s “Vogue”—offered a bit more action. In it, a pair of red Valentino heels can be seen clacking through the Runway office and entering an elevator. As the camera pans up, Streep’s Miranda is revealed, wearing a black Donna Karan top and printed Libertine skirt. Then, at the last moment, Hathaway’s Andy scoots in to join her—wearing the same Jean Paul Gaultier pinstriped waistcoast and pants seen in the still.
“Miranda,” Andy says, by way of greeting.
“Took you long enough,” Miranda intones in response, as the doors close. (We couldn’t agree more.)
The release will land on screens on May 1, 2026. In time for spring and just days ahead of the Met Gala? Groundbreaking.
