The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a 2026 American comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. A sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, it sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles, joined by Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, and Kenneth Branagh. Set two decades after the events of the first film, it follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she helps Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigate a new media landscape and corporate threats to the survival of Runway magazine.
Despite the success of The Devil Wears Prada, Streep and Hathaway were initially hesitant about the prospects of a sequel. Development on the film began in July 2024, with all four leading actorsStreep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tuccisigning on to reprise their roles, and Frankel and McKenna returning to direct and write, respectively. Additional castings for new characters were revealed between then and November 2025. Principal photography took place from June to October 2025 in Manhattan and Milan, with additional filming in Newark, New Jersey.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 premiered on April 20, 2026, in New York, and was released in theaters in the United States by 20th Century Studios on May 1. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $693.3 million on a $100 million production budget, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2026.
Plot
Two decades after leaving Runway magazine, Andrea "Andy" Sachs has become a respected global journalist based in New York City. However, her entire newsroom is abruptly laid off by text message during an awards ceremony. Meanwhile, Miranda Priestly, Andy's old Runway boss, is under fire for publishing a puff piece about a fashion brand that uses sweatshop labor.
To improve the magazine's credibility, Irv Ravitz, who owns Runway parent company, Elias-Clarke, and is Miranda's boss, hires Andy as the features editor without Miranda's knowledge. An uncharacteristically listless Miranda struggles to navigate modern fashion media. Although she retains some tyrannical office behavior, HR complaints have blunted her imperiousness. By contrast, she enjoys a close relationship with her husband, Stuart.
Miranda's right-hand assistant, Nigel Kipling, tells Andy that people no longer read Runway print edition, forcing the brand to embrace online clickbait and cheaply made short-form content to retain advertisers and generate profit. One key advertiser is Dior, which employs Emily Charlton, Andy's former Runway co-worker. Emily leverages the controversy over the Runway puff piece to secure free advertising and a Dior article, which Miranda assigns to Andy. During the interview, Emily and Andy spar over how modern fashion has raised retail prices and shuts out middle-class consumers.
After writing serious articles that gain minimal traction, Andy improves her Runway standing by brokering a coveted interview with Sasha Barnes, the reclusive divorcée of Silicon Valley billionaire, Benji Barnes. Irv promises to make Miranda global head of content at Elias-Clarke but suffers a fatal heart attack at his 75th birthday party before officially announcing the promotion. His son, Jay, takes over Elias-Clarke and puts Miranda's promotion on hold while bringing in management consultants to restructure the magazine and recommend cost cuts. To Andy's surprise, Miranda bears with it. Meanwhile, Andy's romantic interest in Peter stalls when she unintentionally dismisses his job as an apartment renovator while fretting over her own career. Considering her options, Andy explores writing a tell-all book about Miranda. A publisher offers her a lucrative contract, but Andy is conflicted.
During Milan Fashion Week, Andy devises a plan to save Runway by finding a wealthy patron to buy it from Jay. The patron is Benji Barnes, Emily's current boyfriend. Miranda is furious, knowing Emily secretly plans to assume her position at Runway. Miranda admits to pushing out Emily from Runway, saying she lacks creative vision. Miranda acts graciously over losing her position, but during discussions with Benji, his intent to replace Runway staff by AI alarms her.
To prevent Benji and Emily from destroying Runway, Miranda directs Andy to find a competing buyer. Andy convinces Sasha to buy not just Runway but all of Elias-Clarke; Jay accepts her offer, cancelling his deal with Benji. Miranda realizes she has taken Nigel for granted over the years. To make amends, she asks him to deliver the gala's keynote speech in her place, while she and Andy finalize the deal with Sasha, who gives Miranda the promotion Irv promised her.
As the Runway staff return to New York, Miranda admits to Andy that the latter's idealism inspired her to fight back. She also reveals knowing about Andy's plans for a tell-all book and encourages her to write it, including the negative aspects of Miranda's life. Andy reconciles with Peter and also with the defeated Emily, who is now working at COACH fashion and whom Benji broke up with. Nigel reveals that he prompted Irv to rehire Andy. Miranda gives Andy a nicer office and returns to work with a renewed imperiousness.
Cast
Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of the Runway fashion magazine Anne Hathaway as Andrea "Andy" Sachs, a journalist and Miranda's former second assistant who becomes the new Runway features editor Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton, Miranda's former first assistant, who is now a senior executive at Dior Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling, Miranda's longtime right hand Justin Theroux as Benji Barnes, Emily's boyfriend Kenneth Branagh as Stuart Simmons, Miranda's new husband Lucy Liu as Sasha Barnes, Benji's ex-wife B. J. Novak as Jay Ravitz, the finance-bro heir to the Elias-Clarke publishing house Simone Ashley as Amari Mari, Miranda's current first assistant Tracie Thoms as Lily, Andy's best friend Tibor Feldman as Irv Ravitz, Runway chairman, owner of its parent company Elias-Clarke, and Jay's father Patrick Brammall as Peter, Andy's love interest Caleb Hearon as Charlie, Miranda's current second assistant Helen J. Shen as Jin Chao, Andy's assistant Rachel Bloom as Talia, Andy's friend Larry Mitchell as Mack, Andy's journalist friend George C. Wolfe as Paul, a Runway editor Pauline Chalamet as Ilana Poole, a Runway editor Wes McGee as Frank, Emily's ex-husband Lady Gaga as a fictionalized version of herself who has a history with Miranda.
The following personalities also make cameo appearances as themselves:
Production Development In 2013, Lauren Weisberger wrote and published Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, a sequel to her 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada, which had been adapted into the 2006 film. However, it did not seem likely that an adaptation of that novel, or any sequel, would be made, as starring cast members Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway were not eager to do such a film. Streep reportedly said she was not interested, while Hathaway stated she would like to work with the same people on "something totally different".
In July 2024, it was reported that Walt Disney Studios, the parent division of 20th Century Studios, was interested in developing a sequel. Negotiations began that month with Aline Brosh McKenna returning to write the screenplay, and Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles from the first film. A $100 million budget was allotted for production, almost triple the cost of the original film, unadjusted for inflation. David Frankel, who returned as director, said that most of the difference was accounted for by actors' salaries and "[we had] basically the same budget for making the movie as we did the first one." It was later revealed that Streep, Hathaway, and Blunt had pay parity on the sequel, each receiving $12.5 million upfront plus backends contingent on the film's performance, with the potential to ultimately earn over $20 million each.
Casting and filming Principal photography began on June 30, 2025, with Frankel again directing, and Kenneth Branagh joining the cast. In July, it was announced that Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman would also reprise their roles, with Simone Ashley, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B. J. Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Rachel Bloom, and Patrick Brammall joining the cast as new additions.
Streep, Hathaway, and Tucci were spotted filming in Manhattan during the week of July 21, 2025. Blunt was spotted for the first time a week later. Brammall and Hathaway were spotted filming a scene together on August 5. An important airport scene was shot at Newark on September 10. Tucci and Streep filmed at Dolce & Gabbana's Milan Fashion Week show on September 27. Filming took place in Milan, Italy, from October 6 to 18. In October, Donatella Versace was seen on set filming a cameo appearance, while Lady Gaga was announced to have a role. Ashley finished filming her scenes on October 17. Filming officially wrapped on October 20. By November, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Conrad Ricamora, and Calum Harper were also announced to have been cast. In April 2026, it was revealed that Sydney Sweeney, who was meant to cameo as herself, was cut from the finished film.
Some filming locations attracted crowds of onlookers after social media reported that scenes were being filmed there, which had not happened with the first film. According to production designer Jess Gonchor, who also returned from the original, it was "a mob scene" at the American Museum of Natural History, again standing in for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fortunately, he says, the production needed a crowd for the scene anyway, so it helped. A large crowd in the Meatpacking District also watched the filming of the scene where Andy boards the Hampton Jitney. "The shoot was the middle of summer and it was pretty special to see people embracing the movie like that. It never disrupted the filming but it did make everyone feel like the Beatles." Overzealous paparazzi, however, did disrupt filming by fighting among themselves while Hathaway and Tucci were filming a scene, causing them to break character.
Sets and locations
Gonchor, the production designer for the first film, returned for the sequel. The Runway offices were again sets built at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, but this time, he told Architectural Digest, they were eight times larger, showing the space the original was meant only to suggest. "With the new offices, we're creating more of a visual story. We opened the whole thing up so it wasn't just about Miranda and the assistants." The former McGraw-Hill building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas again served as the exterior and lobby of the Elias-Clarke building. A large room was set up as a cafeteria.
"Saying the words 'The Devil Wears Prada' opened a lot of doors for us this time around and got us access into places we hadn't been able to before", Gonchor said. In New York, that meant the production was allowed to film at the Dior boutique at 57th Street and Madison Avenue before it opened, as well as in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, which had been closed for six years for renovations. For Emily's office, newly opened space in the Hudson Yards development was used. Marc Jacobs allowed the production into his fitting rooms. The crew got permission to use the same townhouse that had been Miranda's in the first film.