‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Sequel Set Amid the Decline of Magazines

A sequel to hit 2006 comedy “The Satan Wears Prada” is underneath method at Disney, with key solid and crew extensively anticipated to return, together with director David Frankel.

Aline Brosh McKenna, who tailored the unique movie from the novel by Lauren Weisberger is in talks to put in writing the follow-up, whose storyline reportedly follows Miranda Priestly, the withering vogue magazine editor performed by Meryl Streep, as she navigates the decline of conventional print publication within the digital area.

Her new key adversary is someday assistant Emily Charlton (performed by Emily Blunt within the unique), who’s now a high-powered government for a luxurious consortium, and who makes the selections over the place to position profitable promoting contracts.

Weisberger labored as an assistant to US Vogue editor Anna Wintour earlier than turning to fiction; Priestly is assumed to have been impressed by her former boss – nonetheless in place at Vogue. The movie received Streep a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination, in addition to making $327 million worldwide from a $41 million finances.

The nominal main character within the first movie, Andy Sachs (performed by Anne Hathaway) is thus far absent from the brand new movie’s logline. All three leads have incessantly reunited, most lately on the SAG awards in February. Earlier this yr, Blunt and Hathaway revisited their experiences making the movie as a part of Selection’s Actors on Actors collection.

“We simply had a pleasure bomb of a time on that film,” Blunt instructed Hathaway through the dialog. “I don’t know if any of us knew it was going to turn into what it did. It’s quoted to me each week. It is going to be the film that modified my life.”

Different solid members, most notably Stanley Tucci, who performed Priestly’s long-suffering deputy, have additionally helped preserve dialog concerning the movie alive. Important reassessment of the movie’s romantic subplot has additionally taken place, with many viewers believing that Andy’s boyfriend, Nate, was the “actual villain” of the story for his efforts to get his girlfriend to take her profession much less critically.

Blunt will subsequent be seen in “Jungle Cruise 2,” following her main function in “The Fall Man” and Oscar nomination for “Oppenheimer.” Age-gap romance “The Concept of You” reinvigorated Hathaway’s profession final month; Streep is successful additional approval for her function in comedy collection “Solely Murders within the Constructing.”

A musical model of the unique movie, with an unique rating by Elton John, opens within the West Finish in October, with Vanessa Williams as Priestly.

By Catherine Shoard

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