‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ arrives on Disney+ and Hulu as filmmakers replicate on sequel’s success

After a profitable theatrical run, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” heads to Disney+ and Hulu.

Director David Frankel mentioned revisiting the franchise was each a problem and a danger.

“The first movie meant so much,” Frankel mentioned. “The idea of treading back in seemed reckless in some ways, but also a really fun challenge. And so yeah, relieved that people seemed to embrace it.”

“I love these characters and obviously the movie. The first movie meant so much to all of our careers and has been such a big part of all of lives,” he continued.

The sequel explores how journalism and journal publishing have developed over the previous 20 years, and particularly on the fictional Runway journal, nonetheless headed up by Miranda Priestly, performed by Meryl Streep. Her former assistant Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is now an award-winning journalist who returns to Runway as options editor.

“Every time I’ve ever written anything about journalists I’ve always really longed for them to tell me it was authentic and so the fact that they felt like we had hit some of the marks of things that felt relevant and scary to them, that was very gratifying,” mentioned Aline Brosh McKenna, the movie’s author.

The authentic movie is crammed with memorable, quotable moments and the filmmakers, who labored on the unique as nicely, made certain to include these references into the sequel.

“We also have a tremendous amount of history with each other. So I always had a nice reference for like, this work family got back together again,” mentioned Brosh McKenna. “So that was fun, a little meta.”

“You know you want to do them because they’re fun and I thought Aline did a really clever job of writing them because they’re woven in a way where if you’re not paying attention, you don’t really miss a thing,” Frankel mentioned. “But if you were, you got a little chuckle out of it.”

“And in some cases, it really ties up some loose ends about, you know, especially like the Nigel, Andy, Miranda relationship. There’s some references to how things went down 20 years ago and that are explored. And even in the Andy-Emily relationship…we learn a lot,” he continued.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.

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