Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily, and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2.
The eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon reunites the original main cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and introduces an new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak and Conrad Ricamora. Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as Lily and Irv from the first film.
The original film was based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, following Andy Sachs (Hathaway), a journalism graduate who moved to New York City and lands a very demanding job as junior assistant to Streep’s Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of Runway, a high-fashion magazine.
The new pic is expected to feature Miranda Priestly’s (Meryl Streep) perspective as the fierce editor-in-chief faces the decline of the print industry. There have been a handful of trailers out already for the film, which debuts in theaters May 1. As of the final trailer, it seems a scandal involving Runway magazine is afoot, and Andy has been recruited as a new features editor to help navigate.
Footage unveiled today show Miranda, who hasn’t lost her bite, softly eviscerating her staffers at an ideas meeting for a failed photo shoot. “The intention was to be dull and listless? … The models were encouraged to mill around like starving goats in the parking lot of a methadone clinic in New Jersey?” she asked.
“Well, I wouldn’t say that was the intention.,” said one staffer.
And “You cant’ say that!,” says another. Times have changed and Miranda needs some backup navigating the new world. Enter Anne Hathaway.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and McKenna.
