At long last, after many years of rumors and fans urging to make it happen, a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada is finally on its way.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger, the story follows recent college graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), who lands a job as the assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the powerful and demanding editor-in-chief of a fictional fashion magazine called Runway. Andy struggles with working at the magazine and starts to find her footing with the help of co-worker Nigel (Stanley Tucci) and even Priestly’s first assistant Emily (Emily Blunt). But as Andy grows into her role at the magazine, she struggles to balance her personal life as well as her long-term career goals.

Here’s everything we know about The Devil Wears Prada sequel so far:

The untitled Devil Wears Prada sequel will be released on May 1, 2026.

Disney first announced it was developing the film last year, and the studio just confirmed the release date this week. Thus, the sequel will be released 20 years after the original came out.

Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Daniel Sunjata attend the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada at the Loews Lincoln Center Theatre on June 19, 2006 in New York City.

Filming on the sequel has begun.

Kenneth Branagh pictured in 2022.

Digital news site Puck reported in July 2024 that Streep and Blunt were signed to the sequel. It only took a year to lock everything down. On June 30, 2025, 20th Century Studios announced that production had started with the primary cast—Hathaway, Streep, Blunt, and Tucci—all locked in to return. Also joining the cast: Kenneth Branagh as Miranda Priestly's husband. (In the film, he’s named Stephen, and Miranda was divorcing him in the first film. But in the novel, Miranda’s husband is named Hunter. So we’ll find out when the movie comes out if this is the same Stephen and just recast, or if it’s a new husband altogether.)

Some of the original cast members signaled interest in returning even before a sequel was ever confirmed by Disney. “Listen, if that happens, it would be great,” Tucci told Parade last September. “I don't know if that's gonna happen. All I know is, it was one of the best experiences I've ever had. Were it to be revisited, that would be great.”

Blunt told People last year that she couldn't discuss specifics of the project, except that she thought the positive reaction to the sequel news was “cool” and she just wants to “get some good eye makeup going again.” In June, Blunt essentially confirmed she was returning when she told Entertainment Tonight that she was going to start shooting the sequel in July. “It’s so weird, I haven’t even read a script, I don’t know. I’m just like, where is she, I don’t know,” she said.

Streep will likely avoid method acting in stilettos this time based on her reunion interview with Blunt and Hathaway for Entertainment Weekly in 2021. “It was horrible! I was [miserable] in my trailer,” Streep told EW. “I could hear them all rocking and laughing. I was so depressed! I said, 'Well, it's the price you pay for being boss!' That's the last time I ever attempted a Method thing!”

Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway speak onstage at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angels on February 24, 2024.

One major character is not returning.

Adrien Grenier, however, who played Hathaway’s boyfriend in the film, will not be in the sequel, per Entertainment Weekly. The character had taken on a new light in recent years, often being referred to as the real “villain” (instead of Priestly) in internet memes. “All those memes that came out were shocking to me. It hadn't occurred to me until I started to really think about it, and perhaps it was because I was as immature as Nate was at the time, and in many ways he's very selfish and self-involved, it was all about him, he wasn't extending himself to support Andy in her career," Grenier told EW in 2021.

Could the book's sequel provide hints to the movie's plot?

Plot details are still under wraps officially, but there are a few leads. Weisberger wrote a sequel to her 2003 novel a decade later: Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns. In that book, nearly a decade after leaving Runway, Andy Sachs is thriving with a career at a successful bridal magazine and a high-profile fiancé on her arm. But on her wedding day, a discovery from the past threatens to upend everything—bringing her face-to-face once more with Priestly.

The media landscape has changed quite a bit since then, so it wouldn't be a surprise if the writers went in a totally different direction for a film set in the present day.

Per Variety, the sequel will focus on Streep's fearsome Priestly, even though Streep herself hasn't been confirmed to return just yet. (Her portrayal of Priestly garnered her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 2007.) As the trade paper describes, the fill will follow “Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and as she faces off against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”

We'll update this as soon as we learn more about the The Devil Wears Prada sequel.