The Devil Wears Prada, a 2000s comedy-drama, is apparently the latest great film to be revived.
Disney is working on a sequel to the popular film 18 years later, and Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep have agreed to reprise their roles as Miranda Priestly and Emily Charlton, respectively.
Aline Brosh McKenna, the original screenwriter for The Devil Wears Prada, is also on board; however, Anne Hathaway, who played Miranda’s secretary Andy Sachs, is not expected to be involved in the movie, according to Puck.
According to the publication, the sequel may follow magazine editor Miranda as she struggles with the steady fall of conventional media and spars with Emily, who is now an executive at a luxury fashion firm.
Miranda really wants Emily’s firm to pay for advertising in her magazine so that it can survive.
When Puck approached Disney, the company declined to comment.
David Frankel, director of The Devil Wears Prada, previously denied the possibility of a sequel.
In 2022, he said: ‘There was a little bit of talk a couple of times – once after the movie was such a big hit 15 years ago.
‘We all got on a conference call to discuss it and it was easily decided that that was a terrible idea.
‘We had told this story, these characters were very complete in the way that they had appeared in this film and we had no imagination for where the story would go.’
The Devil Wears Prada follows Andy, a recent graduate who accepts a position as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
However, when Andy starts to take on more responsibilities, Priestly’s long-term assistant Emily becomes jealous.
Lauren Weisberger, who worked as an editor and writer at Vogue and Departures magazine, wrote the novel with the same title in 2003.
Miranda was reportedly inspired by Anna Wintour from Vogue.
