Who's returning for "The Devil Wears Prada 2"? Everything we know about Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway's red-haute sequel
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images; 20th Century Studios The Devil Wears Prada 2is officially back in production in New York City. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are back for the sequel. EW previously exclusively reported that Adrian Grenier will not return for the second film. The last two decades spent without aDevil Wears Pradasequel started to feel a little bit like enduring a 20-year hideous skirt convention. Now,Runwayreaders can rejoice, asThe Devil Wears Prada 2is officially in production with starsMeryl Streep,Anne Hathaway,Stanley Tucci, andEmily Bluntback in business — amid a shifting journalism landscape, that is. Director David Frankel has once again united a powerhouse cast of Hollywood stars for a revival of one of the most popular comedies of the aughts, withThe Devil Wears Prada 2picking up after the first film highlighted the story of Andy Sachs (Hathaway), an aspiring journalist who begrudgingly takes a job working under a ruthless fashion magazine editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep), and her army of haute henchmen (Blunt, Tucci). Barry Wetcher/Fox Little is known about the upcoming movie's plot, but with cameras currently rolling on the project in New York City, news is spilling out at a rate that might require, as Tucci's Nigel might say, a little Crisco and some fishing line to contain. Read on for everything we know so far about Streep, Hathaway, Tucci, Blunt, and more reuniting forThe Devil Wears Prada 2. 20th Century Fox Entertainment Weeklyexclusively reported in July 2024that most primary cast and crew members from the first film were in talks to reprise their roles in the sequel, including Streep (Miranda Priestly), Hathaway (Andy Sachs), Tucci (Nigel Kipling), Blunt (Emily Charlton), director David Frankel, and screenwriterAline Brosh McKenna. The cast all officially signed on shortly thereafter, with OG cast membersTracie Thoms(Lily) and Tibor Feldman (Irv Ravitz) also reprising their roles, while additional returning crew members include producer Wendy Finerman and cinematographer Florian Ballhaus. EW reached out to representatives for supermodelGisele Bündchento see if she would reprise her role as Serena, aRunwaymagazine office worker, in the film, thoughone of her agents replied only with a crying emoji. Maya Dehlin Spach/Getty; Jesse Grant/Getty Unconfirmed industryreportsswirled that stars likeKenneth Branagh,Lucy Liu,Justin Theroux,B.J. Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Simone Ashley, and more had joined the cast, with further clarity only on Branagh's role being reported as that of Miranda's (Streep) latest husband. Later, EW confirmed that McKenna'sCrazy Ex-Girlfriendco-creator and starRachel Bloomhad joined the cast alongsideEvil's Patrick Brammall, withEW exclusively revealing that Brammall wouldreplaceAdrian Grenieras Andy's (Hathaway) love interest. EW exclusively reported in June that Grenier, who portrayed Andy's divisive boyfriend Nate Cooper in the first film, wouldn't return forThe Devil Wears Prada 2. Two sources familiar with the situation confirmed that theEntouragestar wouldn't be back as Nate, Andy's foodie boyfriend who, at the end of the first film, landed a job as a sous chef at a prestigious Boston restaurant, and floated the idea of bringing Andy with him to the Massachusetts city. An exact reason wasn't given for Grenier's absence from the project, though the star has largely retreated from acting in recent years to focus on activism, with his last major role in a scripted project being the 2021 Netflix seriesClickbait. 20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection In a prior interview with EW, Grenier said that he'd reflected on criticism of the character, after many fans labeled him as the real villain of the movie after Nate's poorly handled reactions to Andy's rapidly developing career — including that time she was late to his birthday party because she had to work. "All those memes that came out were shocking to me. It hadn't occurred to me until I started to really think about it, and perhaps it was because I was as immature as Nate was at the time, and in many ways he's very selfish and self-involved, it was all about him, he wasn't extending himself to support Andy in her career," Grenier said at the time. "At the end of the day, it's just a birthday, right? It's not the end of the world. I might've been as immature as him at the time, so I personally couldn't see his shortcomings. But after time to reflect and much deliberation, I've come to realize the truth in that perspective." Plot details forThe Devil Wears Prada 2haven't been announced. But, writerLauren Weisberger, whose first novelbased on her time working underVogue's Anna Wintourlaid the foundation for the 2006 film, released two sequels: 2013'sRevenge Wears Pradaand 2018'sWhen Life Gives You Lululemons. The 2013 book follows Andy shortly after she's turned 30, and has transitioned her career into becoming a successful magazine editor alongside Emily, now one of her best friends. Together, the pair have an unexpected encounter with Miranda that threatens to upend their lives. In EW's 15th anniversary oral historyinterview with the cast and crew, McKenna teased that a sequel might not be possible due to the changing landscape of print journalism. "Magazines and publishing have changed so much. This is a period of time where [Andy] took a physical book to someone's house every day so she could leaf through it. Maybe they still do that, but I doubt it. It had its moment," McKenna said at the time. Barry Wetcher/Fox The end ofThe Devil Wears Pradasees Andy realizing, while on a trip to Paris with Miranda, that the fast-paced life of a fashion journalist isn't her cup of tea. She tosses her iconic Sidekick phone into a fountain and jets off to New York City, leaving Miranda stranded without an assistant in France. Andy ditches her wardrobe of expensive threads (much to Emily's delight) and opts for a pared-down life. We last see her attempting to reconnect with Nate following their breakup, while he flirts with the idea of bringing her along to Boston, where he's set to start a new job as a sous chef at a restaurant.Moments later, Andy has a job interview at a local newspaper — you know, the kind that does "real" journalism, at least in Andy's eyes. It goes well, mostly due to an unexpectedly supportive recommendation letter her potential new boss received after he reached out toRunwayon a reference call. As Andy exits the building, she sees Miranda entering a car from across the street. She waves, with Miranda simply grabbing her sunglasses in response. While Andy sets out on a new path into the sun beaming through New York City, the camera cuts back to Miranda, with the skyscrapers around her casting shadows that look oddly like prison bars as she remains hunkered down in her couture career bubble. The Devil Wears Prada 2is currently filming in New York City, though other locations haven't been confirmed just yet. If the film remains consistent with the tone of the first (and the global reach of the fashion industry), we can possibly expect to see the film shift production to a different locale, as the first movie filmed several scenes across one whirlwind weekend in Paris, as the cast and crew previously told EW in our 15th anniversary oral history. Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images A source previously confirmed to EW that filming would officially begin on July 21, 2025, and was expected to last throughout the summer. A specific end date for filming has yet to be revealed, though fans shared photos from the set in New York City as they watched production unfold throughout the rest of July. The Devil Wears Prada 2is set to premiere in theaters on May 1, 2026, via 20th Century Studios — almost exactly 20 years after the first film's theatrical bow in June 2006. Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free daily newsletterto get breaking news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly
Who's returning for "The Devil Wears Prada 2"? Everything we know about Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway's red-haute sequel ...
