A sequel to the 2006 comedy ‘The Satan Wears Prada’ is within the works at Disney, with key solid and crew anticipated to return, together with director David Frankel. Aline Brosh McKenna, who tailored the unique movie from Lauren Weisberger’s novel, is in talks to jot down the follow-up. The storyline will reportedly concentrate on Miranda Priestly, the formidable style journal editor portrayed by Meryl Streep, as she navigates the decline of conventional print media within the digital age as reported by The Guardian.
The brand new movie will introduce a key adversary for Miranda within the type of her former assistant Emily Charlton, performed by Emily Blunt, who’s now a high-powered government for a luxurious model consortium. This function will see Emily making essential choices about the place to put profitable promoting contracts, creating a brand new dynamic of competitors along with her former boss.
Lauren Weisberger, who labored as an assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour earlier than turning to fiction, is believed to have based mostly the character of Priestly on her former boss. The unique movie earned Streep a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination and grossed $327 million worldwide from a $41 million price range.
Andy Sachs, portrayed by Anne Hathaway within the first movie, is notably absent from the brand new movie’s logline. The three leads have steadily reunited, most not too long ago on the SAG awards in February. Earlier this 12 months, Blunt and Hathaway mirrored on their experiences making the movie throughout Selection’s ‘Actors on Actors’ sequence, with Blunt recalling, “We simply had a pleasure bomb of a time on that film. I don’t know if any of us knew it was going to develop into what it did. It’s quoted to me each week. It is going to be the film that modified my life.”
Different unique solid members, together with Stanley Tucci, who performed Priestly’s longsuffering deputy, have additionally stored discussions concerning the movie alive. The movie’s romantic subplot has undergone vital reassessment, with many viewers now viewing Andy’s boyfriend, Nate, because the “actual villain” for his lack of assist for her profession ambitions.
Blunt will subsequent be seen in ‘Jungle Cruise 2’ and acquired an Oscar nomination for her function in ‘Oppenheimer.’ Hathaway’s profession was not too long ago reinvigorated by the age-gap romance ‘The Thought of You,’ whereas Streep continues to obtain popularity of her function within the comedy sequence ‘Solely Murders within the Constructing.’
A musical adaptation of the unique movie, that includes an unique rating by Elton John, is ready to open within the West Finish in October, with Vanessa Williams as Priestly.
