But now, it looks like that particular gang will, in fact, be reuniting, joined by the original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who is penning the next chapter, as well as its director David Frankel and producer Wendy Finerman. The storyline will reportedly follow “Miranda Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”
Per Puck’s Lauren Sherman: “Emily Charlton will be a high-powered executive at Christian Dior, and will wear Dior fashion throughout the movie. (Let’s hope it’s new stuff from Jonathan Anderson, who is an accomplished costume designer in his own right.) As for the plot, a significant spoiler ahead: still smarting from a grudge against the dowager empress editor Miranda Priestly, Emily conspires with her billionaire boyfriend (inspired in part by Jeff Bezos, I’m told) to buy Runway—which, like every other print magazine, is struggling.” Reps for LVMH and Disney did not comment.
And that’s not all: as presaged in the original The Devil Wears Prada, in which Miranda was gearing up for another divorce, there is a new “Mr. Priestly” on the scene, played by none other than Kenneth Branagh. In even more good news, Adrian Grenier’s now-universally-regarded-as-toxic boyfriend to Andy, Nate, is confirmed to not be returning.
Other updates came on July 8, 2025, when it was confirmed that Simone Ashley had joined the cast in an undisclosed part, accompanied by Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, BJ Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Rachel Bloom, Patrick Brammall, comedian Caleb Hearon, and Broadway stars Helen J Shen and Conrad Ricamora.
Tracie Thoms, a.k.a. Andy’s gallerist friend Lily, and Tibor Feldman, who played Elias-Clark chairman Irv Ravitz (“tiny man, huge ego”), are also set to reprise their roles in the new film.
