After scripting the beloved fashion-world dramedy The Satan Wears Prada, starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, which grossed over $326 million worldwide in its June 2006 debut, Aline Brosh McKenna has been tapped to script a sequel in early improvement at Disney, sources have confirmed to Deadline.
Reps for the studio declined remark. Who from the unique solid will return will not be but clear. (It must be famous that in an interview with E! Information just some months again, Hathaway expressed skepticism that “a continuation of that story” was “ever gonna occur.”) The unique movie’s producer, Oscar winner Wendy Finerman, can even be again, we’re instructed.
Launched by twentieth Century Fox forward of Disney’s acquisition of the studio, The Satan Wears Prada is predicated on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the identical identify. The story follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway), a current journalism graduate who strikes to New York Metropolis and lands a job as a junior assistant to Miranda Priestly (Streep), the highly effective and demanding editor-in-chief of a high-fashion journal. Andy initially struggles with the high-pressure setting and Miranda’s relentless calls for however progressively adapts, gaining confidence and elegance. As she turns into extra concerned in her work, she faces private challenges, together with a strained relationship together with her boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier), and moral dilemmas in regards to the style trade’s values.
Bringing Streep a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination, the movie was a breakthrough mission for Emily Blunt and likewise starred Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, and Adrian Grenier. David Frankel (Marley & Me) served as its director.
Maybe finest recognized for co-creating, showrunning and exec producing the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated musical comedy sequence Loopy Ex-Girlfriend, starring Rachel Bloom, which ran for 4 seasons on The CW, McKenna is coming off of her directorial debut with Your Place or Mine, the Netflix rom-com starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, which she additionally wrote and produced. Upon its debut on the streamer in February, the movie spent 4 weeks within the International High 10 Movies (English), reaching the High 10 Movies in 92 nations. Boasting Story By credit score on Disney’s Cruella, the veteran writer-producer has additionally beforehand scripted movies like Annie, We Purchased a Zoo, and 27 Clothes, amongst others.
Information of the Satan Wears Prada sequel’s improvement was first reported on Monday by Puck.