Devil Wears Prada 2: Release Date, Cast & More
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The Sequel That Isn’t Coming: The Devil Wears Prada 2 Remains a Pipe Dream on July 28, 2026
By USA Film News Staff | July 28, 2026
One month ago, Disney’s 20th Century Studios unveiled its theatrical slate through 2028 at CinemaCon. The announcements included a new Avatar installment, another Star Wars feature, and a fresh Freaky Friday sequel. One title was conspicuously absent: The Devil Wears Prada 2. For fans who have spent the better part of a decade refreshing Deadline and Variety, the silence tells the story.
As of today, July 28, 2026, no official greenlight exists for a sequel to the 2006 cultural phenomenon. That film earned Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination and turned “That’s all” into a permanent fixture of fashion vocabulary. The cast has repeatedly expressed interest. The fan base refuses to let the dream die. Yet the project remains in suspended animation. Here is the unvarnished reality of The Devil Wears Prada 2 in mid-2026.
The “Greenlight That Never Was”: Why a Sequel Remains Stalled
The Licensing Limbo
The primary obstacle is a tangled web of rights. Lauren Weisberger’s 2013 novel Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns could serve as source material, but the legal path from page to screen is anything but straightforward. Fox 2000 Pictures produced the original film; that division has since folded into 20th Century Studios under Disney. Sources close to the property say securing rights for a direct adaptation - or even an original screenplay using the characters without the book’s plot - requires sign-off from multiple parties. Those include Weisberger’s literary agency and the estates involved in the original film’s literary rights.
This week, 20th Century Studios’ official development slate - published quarterly on the studio’s press site - lists zero projects under a Prada banner. No producer Wendy Finerman. No writer attached. No budget allocated. The studio’s development team offers only silence. When USA Film News reached out for comment last month, the response was a polite “no update available.”
The Three-Star Scheduling Nightmare
Even if the rights resolve, reuniting the original trio demands a miracle of celestial alignment. Meryl Streep, now 77, has maintained a relentless production pace. Her 2026 calendar is fully locked: she recently wrapped a limited series for HBO based on Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads, is in pre-production for a Netflix drama directed by Greta Gerwig, and has committed to a stage adaptation of The Glass Menagerie for a 2027 Broadway run. A block of months for a The Devil Wears Prada 2 shoot does not exist.
Anne Hathaway is equally committed. She stars in the upcoming Amazon Studios thriller The Idea of You sequel series and has a multi-picture deal with A24 for independent films through 2028. Emily Blunt, meanwhile, is attached to the next A Quiet Place installment and a Christopher Nolan project now in development. Industry insiders confirm that no meeting with all three stars has ever been formally scheduled to discuss a sequel. No signed contracts exist.
Tracking the Hype: A Timeline of “Maybe” and “No”
The 2024 Comments That Fueled the Rumors
The current wave of speculation traces directly to a series of 2024 interviews. In March of that year, Streep told Entertainment Weekly she would “absolutely consider” returning as Miranda Priestly if “the script was right.” Two months later, Hathaway told Variety she “would love to step back into Andy’s heels.” Blunt followed in August 2024, telling The Hollywood Reporter, “It would be a joy to work with those women again.”
These comments, while genuine expressions of openness, were widely misinterpreted as evidence of active development. No trade report from Deadline, Variety, or The Hollywood Reporter has ever listed The Devil Wears Prada 2 as in talks with a writer, as having a director attached, or as being considered for a greenlight. The fan campaign - hashtags, petitions, an organized social media push - has been relentless. The studio’s response has been nonexistent.
The 2025-2026 Shift in Industry Focus
The film industry landscape has changed dramatically since those 2024 interviews. The wave of legacy sequels and reboots that swept Hollywood through 2025 saw Legally Blonde 3 finally receive a greenlight from MGM, Freaky Friday 2 land a release date on Disney+, and even Practical Magic 2 enter active development at Warner Bros. The Devil Wears Prada 2 has not followed this path.
David Frankel, who directed the original, has made no public comment on a sequel since a brief 2022 interview. His current projects include a documentary about the New York fashion scene and a narrative feature for Searchlight Pictures - neither connected to the Prada universe. Without a director championing the project inside the studio, momentum remains absent.
