'The Devil Wears Prada 2' is officially in production: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci to reportedly return

It’s official: The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in the works.

20th Century Studios, the distribution company for the original film, confirmed the news on Monday morning in an Instagram post.

The 21-second clip features a pair of red stilettos with the devil’s pitchfork as heels. The shoes revolve as famous sound bites from 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada are heard in the background. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is set for release in 2026.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2. Now in production. 👠👠” reads the Instagram post.

The 2006 film, based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger, follows the career trajectory of aspiring journalist Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), who scores the opportunity to work in fashion at the prestigious Runway magazine as an assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the magazine’s cutthroat editor in chief. She’s soon thrust into the fast-paced world of high fashion, and eventually goes from being a sartorial disaster to being clad in coveted designer garments.

Streep’s character is famously modeled after Vogue’s Anna Wintour, who recently stepped down as the magazine’s editor in chief. The film, which grossed $326 million at the box office worldwide, earned Streep an Academy Award nomination.

Hathaway and Streep, along with Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, are set to reprise their roles in the sequel, according to Variety. Kenneth Branagh, who will play Priestly’s husband, has been added to the cast, Deadline reported. The sequel, per the outlet, follows Priestly as she navigates the decline of print.

Details surrounding the Devil Wears Prada sequel were first reported by Deadline in 2024. Sources told the outlet that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend cocreator Aline Brosh McKenna had been tapped to write the film’s sequel, which was in early development at Disney at the time. David Frankel, the original film’s director, and Wendy Finerman, the original film’s producer, were also reportedly in talks to return.

Hathaway previously voiced skepticism about ever bringing The Devil Wears Prada 2 to fruition.

“Probably not,” she told V Magazine in 2024. “We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to. But there’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different.”