Are you taking a look at “The Satan Wears Prada” sequel set photographs? Yeah, we’re — and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna approves.
Whereas followers are clamoring for a peek at Anne Hathaway again as Andy Sachs and Meryl Streep reprising her Oscar-nominated function of Miranda Priestly (allegedly impressed by Anna Wintour), “The Satan Wears Prada 2” photographs have already ignited a viral storm: Are the photographs spoiling the style? Or even perhaps the plot?
McKenna disagrees. In truth, she welcomes the net discord and may even relate to the joy.
“Folks will stand outdoors only for a glimpse of those actors and these characters that they love as a result of seeing them in wardrobe has actually excited folks, particularly because it’s a style film,” McKenna informed IndieWire whereas on set filming on the Met steps. “We knew there could be a whole lot of curiosity. I personally hadn’t skilled this stage of individuals popping out [to the set], nevertheless it’s the world we dwell in. In some ways, we’re chatting with a unique world than we did in 2006. … It stems from like a professional need to see these characters once more. So long as everybody’s protected, what an honor that individuals are nonetheless .”
“The Satan Wears Prada” hit theaters in 2006, with its sequel now set for a launch in 2026 in time for the twentieth anniversary. Hathaway returns to steer the movie as journalist Andy, who was final seen quitting style journal Runway and nonetheless touchdown a heartwarming referral letter from her former boss, editor-in-chief Miranda (Streep). Emily Blunt performs Andy’s former colleague Emily Charlton, with Stanley Tucci as Runway’s inventive director Nigel.
The sequel plot has been saved beneath wraps; together with McKenna and the core forged, David Frankel is again directing, with the below-the-line crew of producers, DPs, manufacturing designers, and costumers (Patricia Subject did the costume designs for the primary movie) returning too.
And as McKenna stated, “The Satan Wears Prada” is inherently a movie that places style on the forefront. “I obtained somewhat squeal after I noticed them in costume the primary time,” McKenna admitted of witnessing Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci again in character. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God!’ It was like my son’s bar mitzvah or one thing. I felt like I wished to take footage!”
McKenna continued, “I’m a fan of those actors, and I simply should pinch myself incessantly. The guts and soul of this are the folks. It’s been actually superb to see these folks once more.”
The extremely publicized shoot is all simply a part of the celebration. “I believe that folks actually, actually crave in-person experiences and customary experiences, they usually’ll search them out,” McKenna stated, citing the current sold-out “The Summer time I Turned Fairly” Bryant Park outside fan screening as a first-rate instance of the clamoring for communal cinematic occasions. “Probably the most great factor about [‘The Devil Wears Prada’] is what it means to folks. While you inform them you’re doing it, it actually means one thing as a result of it looks as if [the original] marked some form of vital moments in their very own life, and that’s tremendously gratifying and thrilling.”
McKenna is trying to embrace followers’ love of “The Satan Wears Prada” within the making of the sequel. “We’ve all recognized one another for 20 years, so it displays our personal evolutions and relationships, and that’s been actually cool, reconnecting to individuals who shared this expertise with you the primary time,” McKenna stated of working once more with the unique forged and crew. “We’re additionally experiencing our personal sense of nostalgia and revisiting this in one of the best ways. It’s a real reunion, and that’s what we’re hoping to do for an viewers: to offer them that feeling of a reunion, too.”
“The Satan Wears Prada 2” is anticipated to be in theaters in 2026.