After years of endless speculation, conflicting interviews from its stars, and a delightful on-stage reunion at this year’s SAG Awards, those of us who still worship at the feet of the cult classic that is The Devil Wears Prada finally have the news we’ve been waiting for: At last, 18 years later, a sequel is now in the works.
If you’re getting whiplash, you’re not the only one. Back in October 2022, during a red carpet interview, Anne Hathaway told Entertainment Tonight categorically that “there’s not going to be a sequel. It’s not gonna happen. We can’t do it.” Even more recently, in April 2024, when asked about the possibility of a sequel by V Magazine, she reiterated that it was “probably not” going to happen, though she was notably less definitive in shutting down the rumors. “We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to,” she said. “But there’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different. Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Dave Frankel, Patricia Field… we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.”
