We’d not be going to Paris, however we’re going again into the world of Miranda Priestly as a sequel to The Satan Wears Prada is reportedly within the works!
Based on a number of studies, Disney is engaged on a follow-up to the mega-successful 2006 trend dramedy starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. Puck was first to share the groundbreaking information and report that each Streep and Blunt have signed on.
On Monday, the outlet reported that movie producer Wendy Finerman is difficult at work recruiting the unique movie’s scribe, Aline Brosh McKenna, to pen the script, which can purportedly observe Streep’s character close to the top of her profession and trying to Blunt’s character for help within the dying journal enterprise. Moreover, Deadline states that the unique director, David Frankel, can be in talks to return.
The film is an adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 eponymous novel, which follows journalist Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she struggles to maintain up because the junior assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), the editor-in-chief of Runway journal — an Anna Wintour kind, if you’ll. Blunt stars as Emily Charlton, Priestly’s senior assistant, who is continually in competitors to get a leg up on others on the journal, whereas Tucci performs Nigel Kipling, Runway‘s artwork director. Streep was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe again in 2007 for the position.
Earlier this yr, Hathaway truly commented on the potential of a sequel mere weeks after she reunited with Blunt and Streep on the SAG Awards in a hilarious parody of their film.
“In all probability not,” she advised V Journal about whether or not she might see a Satan Wears Prada sequel taking place. “All of us love one another and if any individual might provide you with a option to do it, I feel we might all be loopy to not.”
Hathaway additionally beforehand spoke concerning the potential sequel throughout a 2022 look on The View when she shared skepticism on the considered returning to the world of trend journalism within the print type.
“I simply assume that film was in a special period. Now all the things’s gone so digital and that film is centered across the idea of manufacturing a bodily factor and it’s simply, it’s simply very totally different,” the Les Misérables Academy Award winner acknowledged, per Deadline.
Within the practically twenty years because the movie’s launch, the undertaking has turn out to be a cultural touchstone and has been memed, parodied and quoted extra instances than anyone individual can depend. It is also heading to London’s West Finish in musical type with Vanessa Williams — who fairly paradoxically performed demanding trend journal editor Wilhelmina Slater in Ugly Betty — because the titular satan in Prada.
In 2018, ET spoke with Blunt who expressed her willingness (and curiosity) in reprising her character for a possible sequel — no matter that will appear like. Weisberger has penned not solely a sequel to her hit novel, aptly titled Revenge Wears Prada, however a by-product centered round Blunt’s character.
“I might be down,” the Oscar-nominated actress mentioned on the time of coming into the style world once more. “I imply, if everybody wished to do it, may very well be cool.”
Equally, ET chatted with Tucci in 2023 as he was selling his Prime Video sequence, Citadel, the place he echoed Blunt’s openness to heading again to Runway journal.
“I might fortunately play Nigel in The Satan Wears Prada once more. It was a extremely nice expertise,” he mentioned.
Here is hoping that Streep and Blunt can get the total gang again collectively — and that everybody will get to go to Paris Trend Week this time round.
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