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Gird your loins! A sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” is coming, per Puck‘s Lauren Sherman.
The forthcoming picture is reportedly in the works at Disney, with some of the original team on board, including Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and original screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. No word on Anne Hathaway, though.
The seminal film is based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 (technically) fictional book inspired by her time working for Anna Wintour at Vogue during peak magazine era. It stars Streep as “Runway” editor Miranda Priestly, Hathaway as her deer-in-the-headlights new assistant and Blunt as the seasoned right-hand. It was nominated for two Oscars, and remains a beacon of satire for the industry.
The sequel is said to center around the fall of print media. According to Sherman’s reporting for Puck, Streep’s character will also face her former assistant who’s now an executive at a luxury conglomerate that controls the advertising dollars “Runway” needs.
Surely, in the 2020s, Priestly isn’t just worried about whether her team understands the nuances of cerulean — she’ll need to figure out how to manage both print and digital teams (imagine her sitting in an SEO meeting), navigate fashion week allocations in the age of influencers and make peace with the realities of travel budgets (surely there’s no longer Plaza Athenée money at “Runway”). No release date has been announced.
Source: Fashionista.com