"The Devil Wears Prada 2" Official Trailer: Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci Reunite for a Power Struggle at Runway in This Highly Anticipated Sequel — In Theaters May 1st
🎥 Nearly two decades later, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci slip back into the cutthroat world of fashion and media.
Here’s a pretty safe prediction that 2026 will deliver a few box office sensations by the year’s end. One could point to Avengers: Doomsday as a surefire money-making winner. Others might say Supergirl, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Disney’s live-action Moana remake, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Dune: Part Three will all likely come out on top and rank among the year’s highest-grossing films.
But there may be one highly anticipated movie people are sleeping on at the moment—one that isn’t being talked about as loudly as others, yet has all the ingredients to become this year’s first true breakout hit: the long and eagerly awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, set to open in May.
Sure, it’s been almost 20 years (if you can believe it or not) since the first Devil Wears Prada movie strutted into theaters and instantly cemented itself as a pop-culture staple, launching Anne Hathaway into the upper echelons of her generation’s most bankable and beloved stars. It also catapulted Emily Blunt into the spotlight, announcing her arrival as a scene-stealing force, while also reminding us why Stanley Tucci has become one of the most reliable and endlessly watchable character actors in the business. And if that wasn’t enough, it featured yet another deliciously icy Meryl Streep performance, once again proving why she has remained simply the best there ever was—an actor who can emote moments of vulnerability even within the most ruthless and coldhearted of characters.
To be fair, 20 years ago the movie was viewed as a fun little adaptation with a catchy title based on a best-selling piece of female-lit fluff, not necessarily something anyone expected to burrow so deeply into the culture or stand the test of time the way it ultimately did. Since its release, The Devil Wears Prada has grown into one of those comfort movies—constantly playing on cable TV or in heavy rotation on your preferred streaming platform. It’s a film you click on almost by instinct, even if you only meant to watch only five minutes of it. In a lot of ways, it’s a time-capsule film. It evokes a simpler era before everything metastasized into the content-churning, social-media outrage-fueled cesspool we’re all living in now.
Hathaway’s Andy Sachs wasn’t so different from your average wide-eyed college-educated twenty-something who was ambitious and foolish enough to believe a little hard work, a few compromises, and some sleepless nights would eventually lead to something better on the other side. In a way, The Devil Wears Prada, despite its glossy New York fashion trappings, represented how white-collar environments and office work dynamics would soon be shaped and defined by impossible expectations, blurred personal boundaries, and the quiet normalization of burnout disguised as “paying your dues” for a boss who demanded everything and gave very little in return.
Let’s take, for instance, Streep’s Miranda Priestly. At the time of the first film’s release, she was the fictional stand-in for Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, whose reputation for heartless detachment and exacting extreme working standards had already become the stuff of industry legend. But now, 20 years later, this egotistical “girl-boss” feels less like a product of New York’s elite class and more like a prototype for the kind of corporate tyrant we’ve all since encountered in one form or another. The Mirandas of the world (and yes, that includes the Elons and Zuckerbergs in that same bag) have taken over, becoming more the norm than the pariah in the intervening years, as ruthless leadership has quietly been repackaged as efficiency, disruption, and so-called visionary authority.
Now, we’d be total fools to believe The Devil Wears Prada 2 will somehow tackle the full scope of today’s workplace issues head-on or secretly transform itself into an eat-the-rich satire where Miranda and her ilk are finally dragged through the mud and forced to reckon with the damage they’ve done. After all, this is a sequel to a studio blockbuster now owned by Disney. So, expect nothing less than a polished, crowd-pleasing return steeped in witty observations, knowing winks, and plenty of affectionate nods to the original cast and the crackling chemistry that made the first film such an enduring favorite in the first place.
In fact, the newly released first full trailer seems to indicate exactly that—leaning hard into familiarity, quippy banter, and the charming pleasure of slipping back into the world of New York’s number one fashion magazine, Runway. Though it seems the magazine is hitting a bit of a rough patch, as the media landscape has certainly shifted since the last time we saw this gang back together, forcing every department at Runway to navigate an era that no longer bends so easily to mere gloss and glamour.
From what we can gather, Hathaway’s Andy—still as optimistic and upbeat as ever—has returned to her old stomping grounds at Runway, hired as the magazine’s new feature editor. She seems to have been brought in to pitch fresh ideas, shake things up, and update the publication’s increasingly outdated way of doing business. However, Streep’s Miranda appears to have absolutely no clue who she is, with no memory of Andy ever working at the company at all. One could even go so far as to suggest she’s quietly suffering from some form of cognitive decline. But to know Miranda is to understand that this “forgetfulness” may be far more calculated than accidental.
But perhaps the big moment of this new trailer has to be the long-awaited reunion between Hathaway’s Andy and Emily Blunt’s Emily Charlton, the sharp-tongued office rival who once treated ambition like a blood sport and now appears to be every bit as sassy as she is self-assured. It’s not entirely clear where Emily has landed at this stage of her career—maybe she’s running her own fashion company, or perhaps heading up a powerful department at Runway. Either way, it seems she’s been called back into the fold to help both Andy and Miranda, as the two are now forced to operate as uneasy equals, fighting to secure the future of the magazine.
Stanley Tucci is also once again back as Nigel Kipling, Miranda’s longest-serving and most loyal confidant and right-hand man. In fact, most of the original creative team behind the first film has returned, including director David Frankel, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, and producer Wendy Finerman.
Rounding out the cast are Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak, and Conrad Ricamora, while fan favorites Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman are set to reprise their roles as Lily and Irv. And yes, you can also expect plenty of A-list guest stars popping in for cameos, likely as themselves, as the film once again dives headfirst into the fashion world’s revolving door of celebrities and cultural tastemakers.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 will sashay its way into theaters everywhere starting May 1st, kicking off the summer movie season. Don’t be surprised if it also turns into one of those rare sequels that draws multiple generations of moviegoers back to cinemas.
Official Synopsis:
Everybody wants this…
Almost 20 years after making their iconic turn as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation.
The film reunites the original main cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and introduces an all-new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak and Conrad Ricamora. Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as “Lily” and “Irv” from the first film.
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” is produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and Aline Brosh McKenna. The film debuts exclusively in theaters May 1.