A sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” is one step nearer to the massive display screen, and it’s coming at a decisive time within the trend trade that impressed it.
twentieth Century Studios announced on Monday via social media that the sequel to the beloved 2006 movie is at the moment in manufacturing, and it dovetails with the information that Anna Wintour – who is famously believed to have been the inspiration for the titular diabolical editor within the movie, performed by Meryl Streep – is stepping down from her position editor-in-chief at Vogue after almost four decades.
The first movie was based mostly on the 2003 bestselling novel of the identical title by Lauren Weisberger, who had beforehand labored as a private assistant to Wintour at Vogue, and tells the story of an impressionable younger New Yorker (Anne Hathaway) who finds a job at a prime trend journal below the course of a tough-as-nails editor.
Streep’s character Miranda Priestly turned shorthand for difficult-to-please bosses regardless of the trade, and he or she earned certainly one of her many Oscar nominations for her efficiency.
The new movie will welcome again Streep, together with Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt, whose profession was launched by the hit first film.
NCS has additionally confirmed that Kenneth Branagh has joined the solid for the following installment, at the moment identified as “The Devil Wears Prada 2” on IMDb.
For her half, Wintour was at one level…lower than captivated with being linked to the Priestly character.
In 2009, she appeared on David Letterman’s late night talk show the place she famous that the movie was “fiction” and identified that “as my publisher says in the movie, I’m not always warm and cuddly.”
“What I liked about the movie is that it really showed all the hard work that goes into the making of the magazine,” she allowed on the time.
The sequel is being directed by David Frankel, who additionally helmed the unique. A launch date for “Devil Wears Prada 2” has not but been launched.