The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is Coming — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway Are Back, and Lucy Liu Just Revealed Her Mysterious Role

## The Sequel Nobody Expected Was Possible Is Almost Here The Devil Wears Prada is one of those films that exists so completely as a cultural artifact — the performances, the costumes, the specific wit of the screenplay, the chemistry between Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs — that a seque

The Devil Wears Prada is one of those films that exists so completely as a cultural artifact — the performances, the costumes, the specific wit of the screenplay, the chemistry between Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs — that a sequel has always seemed both commercially obvious and creatively dangerous. How do you revisit a film whose legacy rests partly on its completeness? The answer, it turns out, is to wait twenty years, keep the same director, bring back the key cast, and trust that the fashion world has given the story twenty more years of material to work with.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 opens May 1, 2026, directed by David Frankel — who directed the original — and reunites Streep and Hathaway in the roles that defined the first film. Emily Blunt, who played Emily Charlton, Priestly's first assistant, is also confirmed to return. Stanley Tucci, who played the sardonic Nigel, rounds out the core cast. The original film, released in 2006, was based on Lauren Weisberger's novel and became both a commercial success and a permanent cultural reference point for conversations about ambition, fashion, workplace dynamics, and the specific toxicity of charismatic authority figures.

Lucy Liu, who joins the cast in a new role, spoke to People magazine about the experience: "Working with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway was nothing but a reverie," she said, adding that she is confident the film will be "highly entertaining." Liu described her character as having a "mysterious role" in the film, deliberately declining to provide specifics in a way that suggests the character's reveal has been designed as a genuine story element rather than a simple cameo.

The specific creative challenge facing Frankel and the screenplay team (the details of which have not been fully disclosed) is how to write characters whose essential dynamics were established in 2006 in a fashion media world that has been transformed almost beyond recognition in the intervening two decades.

Miranda Priestly, at the height of her power in the original, embodied a specific model of editorial authority — the print magazine editor as absolute monarch, whose tastes shaped not just what appeared in the pages of Runway but what the fashion industry understood itself to be. That model has been undermined by the digital transformation of media, the rise of social media influencers, the decline of print advertising, and the fragmentation of fashion authority across multiple platforms and aesthetics. How Miranda Priestly functions in 2026 — whether she has adapted, fought the change, or been diminished by it — is the central creative question the sequel must answer.

Andy Sachs, who walked away from Runway at the end of the original to pursue journalism on her own terms, has presumably had twenty years of professional life in media — a sector that has undergone as dramatic a transformation as fashion publishing, in similar and related ways. What she has made of that career, and how her path intersects with Miranda's world again, is the specific narrative that the sequel's writers had to construct.

Emily Blunt's Emily Charlton was one of the original film's most memorable supporting characters — the first assistant whose wounded pride at being passed over for Paris by Andy drove some of the film's most pointed comedy. The specific question of where Emily Charlton is in 2026, and what her relationship with both Miranda and Andy looks like twenty years later, is one that the Blunt fans who have been waiting for this film since its 2024 announcement will be watching closely.

Stanley Tucci's Nigel provided the film's wry philosophical counterweight — the industry veteran who understood exactly what Miranda's world cost its inhabitants and had made his peace with that cost. His specific function in the sequel is similarly guarded, but Tucci's presence is guarantor of a certain quality of dry observation.

The film's production has been tightly controlled for leaks in ways that suggest the filmmakers are confident in their story and want the theatrical release to deliver genuine surprises. The May 1 release date places it in a competitive spring window that will test whether the original film's cultural legacy has translated into ticket-buying intent across audiences who were children when the original was released and those who have discovered it in the twenty years since.