The Devil Wears Prada 2 Trailer Is Finally Here & What Is Up With Miranda?

‘Twas the summer of 2024 when we first heard the news: There’s going to be a brand new sequel to the 2006 smash hit The Devil Wears Prada, starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. Millennials everywhere rejoiced — this movie is so good and so quotable, and I’ve watched it so many times that it’s basically part of my DNA at this point. Now, an official trailer has been released, and I simply can not explain the vibrations I felt hearing “Vogue” softly in the background.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll be *sat* in a movie theater seat wide-eyed and ready when the sequel comes out. For now, here’s everything we know about The Devil Wears Prada reboot, from returning cast rumors to potential plot lines.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer sheds *some* light on what the sequel will be about...

In July of 2024, Puck magazine revealed that a follow-up to the original film was in the works with Disney. Deadline later confirmed this was true and that Aline Brosh McKenna — the screenwriter of the first The Devil Wears Prada — was tapped to write the script. So yes, we knew it would be good.

Well, now that the trailer is here, we don’t have to speculate quite so much about where this sequel will take us. We see Andy Sachs return to Runway as its new features editor, where Miranda and Nigel still run the show. But at least in the trailer, it seems Miranda doesn’t remember her — has it really been that long? The trio appears to have a meeting with Emily (and her own duo of assistants), while Andy has a new love and is being tailed by a mysterious woman.

An IMDB page for The Devil Wears Prada 2 adds a little more context in its plot description, saying the film “follows Miranda Priestly's struggle against Emily Charlton, her former assistant turned rival executive, as they compete for advertising revenue amidst declining print media while Miranda nears retirement.”

But viewers are probably wondering: Why doesn’t Miranda remember Andy? The fact that Andrea actually broke through Miranda’s icy exterior is the whole point of the first movie. In the comments on the trailer, viewers say Miranda pretending not to know Andy is just peak Miranda behavior, essentially negating any humanizing moments they may have had together — Andy did see her pretty vulnerable during her divorce before leaving to take a better job, which would be a snub in Priestly’s book.

Speaking of books, commenters who’ve read The Devil Wears Prada series by Lauren Weisberger say it does eventually come to light in the second book that Miranda knew who Andy was all along. This mirrors the real-life story of Weisberger, who was an assistant to former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who inspired Miranda Priestly. When Wintour found out about Weisberger’s first book, she reportedly said, “I cannot remember who that girl is.”

However, many fans online have circulated a new theory: that Miranda is experiencing cognitive decline, perhaps in the form of dementia or Alzheimer’s, and that maybe the crux of this movie will be her coming to accept that it’s time to leave Runway. While I’m not totally sold on this theory, the shot of her in the trailer alone and looking around that long walkway of shops seems to mean something more is at work in this movie.

Personally, I can’t wait to find out where we pick up with Andy’s personal life. She looks to have a new beau who is definitely not her boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier) from the first movie. And where are Andy’s kind of sh*tty friends now?

The Devil Wears Prada Sequel Cast

We can clearly see that all our favorite main characters are so back, baby. We’ve got Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs, Stanley Tucci as Nigel, Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton, and yes, Meryl Streep is back as the devil herself: Miranda Priestly. Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as “Lily” and “Irv” from the first film, according to the caption of the trailer.

20th Century Studios also says The Devil Wears Prada 2 will introduce “an all-new runway of characters” played by Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak, and Conrad Ricamora.

The Devil Wears Prada Sequel Release Date

There were no rumblings about a release date for a while, but the teaser trailer officially announced The Devil Wears Prada 2 theatrical release date as May 1. When will it come to streaming? Only time will tell.